THE REPUBLIC (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) vs. THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE GOMOA ASSIN TRADITIONAL COUNCIL, GOMOA ASSIN (RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS) EBUSUAPANYIN KWADWO ABOR, NANA KOFI KORANTENG III, NANA ESSEL AMOKWANDOH VIII AND SUPI KOJO WEREM (APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS) EBUSUA PANYIN KWEKU WU (SUBSTITUTED BY NANA KWAME OKYERE MPANTO I) (INTERESTED PARTY) [2009]DLCA7810

THE REPUBLIC (PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT) vs. THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE GOMOA ASSI... [2009]DLCA7810

Date	2009-05-28
Suit No.	SUIT NO.HI/235/04
Citation No.	[2009]DLCA7810

V. AKOTO BAMFO J.A. (PRESIDING)

V. D. OFOE J.A.

IRENE DANQUAH J.A.

VICTOR OCANSEY FOR THE APPELLANT

AMPONSAH-DADZIE FOR THE RESPONDENTS

[2009]DLCA7810
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>THE JUDICIAL
COMMITTEE OF THE GOMOA ASSIN TRADITIONAL COUNCIL, GOMOA ASSIN<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>EBUSUAPANYIN
KWADWO ABOR, NANA KOFI KORANTENG III, NANA ESSEL AMOKWANDOH VIII AND SUPI KOJO
WEREM<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>EBUSUA PANYIN
KWEKU WU (SUBSTITUTED BY NANA KWAME OKYERE MPANTO I)<o:p></o:p>(INTERESTED PARTY)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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SUIT
NO.HI/235/04&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 28TH MAY, 2009<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>VICTOR
OCANSEY FOR THE APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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AMPONSAH-DADZIE
FOR THE RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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V.
AKOTO BAMFO J.A. (PRESIDING), V. D. OFOE J.A., IRENE DANQUAH J.A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>VICTOR D. OFOE, JA:
The matter is a chieftaincy dispute before the Judicial Committee of the Gomoa
Akyepim Traditional Council. The parties to the dispute are Ebusuapanyin Kwadwo
Abor, Nana Kofi Koranteng III and Supi Kojo Werem on one side and Ebusuapanyin
Kweku Wu and Nana Abor Ewusie XIX (now deceased) on the other.<o:p></o:p>The
case has found its way to this court because the appellants are aggrieved at a Prohibition
and other consequential orders made by the learned trial Judge of Agona Swedru
against the Judicial Committee of the Gomoa Assin Traditional Council on&nbsp; application of the applicants.The orders read
as follows:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “I
find that the application for prohibition succeeds.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Accordingly it is hereby
ordered that the respondents that is, the members of the Judicial Committee of
the Gomoa Assin Traditional Council, Gomoa Assin are prohibited from further
hearing and or determining and delivering judgment in the pending chieftaincy matter
before it between<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(i)&nbsp;
Ebusuapanyin Kwadwo&nbsp; Abor<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(ii)&nbsp;
Nana Kojo Koranteng III<o:p></o:p>(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp; Supi Kojo Werem on the one hand and<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;(1) Nana AborEwusie XIX (deceased)<o:p></o:p>(2)
&nbsp;Ebusuapanyin Kweku&nbsp; Wu on the other.<o:p></o:p>It
is further ordered by this Court that the said judgment/finding is null and
void and is of no legal effect.<o:p></o:p>For the sake of peace, a new Judicial Committee properly
and entirely differently constituted may be &nbsp;&nbsp;asked to sort out the same problem afresh between
the parties in a judicial manner: and until and unless that is done, the status
quo should be maintained.<o:p></o:p>I award ¢4,000,000.00
costs against the respondents and the interested party Ebusuapanyin Kweku Wu in
favour of the applicants.<o:p></o:p>Application for prohibition order granted.”<o:p></o:p>What are the facts that got to the High Court which
necessitated these orders? The gist should be sufficient. The Gomoa Assin
Traditional Council had sat on the case between <o:p></o:p>