THE REPUBLIC vs. DR. KOFI ESSILFIE TAYLOR AND 6 OTHERS EX-PARTE: OPANIN KWAKU KYIKYlBI-GYAN [2011]DLCA6607

THE REPUBLIC vs. DR. KOFI ESSILFIE TAYLOR AND 6 OTHERS EX-PARTE: OPANIN KWAKU... [2011]DLCA6607

Date	2011-11-03
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL H1/14/1996
Citation No.	[2011]DLCA6607

KUSI-APPIAH J .A. (PRESIDING)

APALOO J.A.

ADUAMA OSEI J .A.

MR. MOHAMMED SAHNOON FOR THE PLAINTIFF/RESPONDENT

MR. GABRIEL PWAMANG FOR THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT

[2011]DLCA6607
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>DR. KOFI
ESSILFIE TAYLOR AND 6 OTHERS<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE: OPANIN
KWAKU KYIKYlBI-GYAN<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</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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APPEAL H1/14/1996&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: 3RD
NOVEMBER, 2011<o:p></o:p>

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THE DEFENDANT/APPELLANT <o:p></o:p>

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(PRESIDING) APALOO, J.A. AND ADUAMA OSEI, J .A.<o:p></o:p>

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</div>KUSI-APPIAH,
J.A. <o:p></o:p>This
is an appeal from the decision of the High Court, Accra dated 5th day of May
1994 in which judgment was entered in favour of the applicant/respondent, now
the Respondent against the respondents/appellants, now the Appellants. <o:p></o:p>The
facts relevant to this case are that on or about 10th June, 1976, one Kow Gyan
Panin who claimed to be a royal from the Otuano Royal House of the Effutu
Traditional Area and the predecessor in title of the Respondent in the present
proceedings petitioned against the Tufuhene Ankwado and others who hailed from
the Ayirebi Acquah House and were the predecessor in title of some of the
appellants for: <o:p></o:p>"1. A declaration that the
Petitioner and the Royal House of Otuano are the only established institutional
set-up entitled by custom to perform the rites for the destoolment of the
Paramount Stool of Winneba, and <o:p></o:p>2. Perpetual Injunction restraining
the Respondents therein (Tufuhene Ankwando and others) from interfering with
the Petitioner's said rights." <o:p></o:p>The
petition was accompanied by a statement in which the petitioner set out the
details of his claim. He alleged that from time immemorial the rites to be
performed for both enstoolment and destoolment in Effutu have always been the
exclusive preserve of the Royal Stool Family of Otuano. He contended that the
Respondents therein had purported to perform that said rites on or about 8th
June, 1976 a few days after the appeal lodged by Nana Ghartey V, then Omanhene
of Effutu against the judgment of the Central House of Chiefs. <o:p></o:p>His
complaint was that the respondents therein not being members of the Otuano
Royal House have no right to perform the said rites, hence the petition. <o:p></o:p>For
their part, the Respondents therein contended otherwise. They argued that the
Petitioner had no locus standi and has never been a party to any destoolment
and referred to the destoolment case between Tufuhene Ankwandoh (representing others)
and Nana Ghartey V, the subject-matter of the appeal referred to above. <o:p></o:p>They
averred that from time immemorial the practice of enstoolment and destoolment
have been vested in the two Asafo Companies and the Divisional Chiefs of
Effutu, the Otuano and another called Akramano, but that the rites for
enstoolment and destoolment have not been performed by the Otuano people. They
then went on to describe their version of the rites for the destoolment of an
Omanhene of Effutu, a practice completely different from that described by the
Petitioner. They therefore alleged that the Petitioner is not entitled to the
reliefs sought by him. <o:p></o:p>The
action commenced before the Judicial Committee of the Central Regional House of
Chiefs. That Committee on 30th June, 1977 unanimously found for the Petitioner,
thus finding that Kow Gyan Panin and the Royal Stool House of Otuano are the
only established institutional set-up entitled by custom to perform rites for
the destoolment of the Paramount Chief of Winneba and also granted perpetual
injunction re</main>