THE REPUBLIC vs. NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS, KUMASI EX-PARTE; NII LARBIE MENSAH IV & ORS. [2011]DLSC2645

THE REPUBLIC vs. NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS, KUMASI EX-PARTE; NII LARBIE MENSAH IV... [2011]DLSC2645

Date	2011-06-01
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/37/2010
Citation No.	[2011]DLSC2645

ATUGUBA JSC (PRESIDING)

ANSAH JSC

OWUSU (MS) JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS) JSC

AYIKOI OTOO FOR THE INTERESTED PARTY/APPELLANT

DR. JOSIAH ARYEH FOR THE RESPONDENT.

[2011]DLSC2645
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>NATIONAL
HOUSE OF CHIEFS, KUMASI<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE; NII LARBIE MENSAH IV &amp; ORS.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;[SUPREME COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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CIVIL APPEAL NO. J4/37/2010 &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;&nbsp;DATE: 1ST JUNE, 2011<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>AYIKOI OTOO FOR THE
INTERESTED PARTY/APPELLANT.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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DR.
JOSIAH ARYEH FOR THE RESPONDENT.<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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ATUGUBA, JSC. (PRESIDING)
ANSAH, JSC OWUSU (MS), JSC GBADEGBE, JSC AND AKOTO-BAMFO (MRS), JSC<o:p></o:p>

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JUDGEMENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>ATUGUBA, J.S.C:<o:p></o:p>Facts of
the Case<o:p></o:p>The Appellant herein known
in private life as Francis Nii Aryee Addoquaye was enstooled Ablekuma Mantse
and Sempe Atofo under the Stool name of Nii Larbie Mensah IV.&nbsp; There was no writ/petition against his
installation.&nbsp; As a result, his
Chieftaincy Declaration (CD) Forms were duly processed by the Ga Traditional
Council and forwarded to the National House of Chiefs through the Greater-Accra
Regional House of Chiefs for his name to be inserted in the National Register
of Chiefs.&nbsp; The name of the Appellant was
inserted in the national Register of Chiefs on the 23rd day of May
2006 as having been enstooled on the 14th &nbsp;day of April 2000.&nbsp; Sometime in or about September 2006, Adjin
Tettey who also claimed that he had been installed as Ablekuma Mantse and Sempe
Atofotse under the Stool name of Nii Larbi Mensah IV filed an application for
Judicial Review in the nature of mandamus directed at the National House of
Chiefs to remove the name of the Appellant from the National Register of Chiefs
and insert his name following his recognition by a judgment of the Judicial Committee
of the Ga Traditional Council in October 1997.<o:p></o:p>When the Application came
on for hearing the Learned Trial Judge ordered the Interested
Party/Appellant/Appellant herein to be joined to the action.&nbsp; After all processes had been filed the matter
was heard.&nbsp; The High Court, Kumasi, presided
over by His Lordship K. Ansu-Gyeabour granted the Application.&nbsp; Being aggrieved and dissatisfied with the
said Ruling, the Interested Party/Appellant appealed to the Court of Appeal. On
12th June 2009, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal but varied
the costs of GH¢2,000.00 awarded against the National House of Chiefs to
GH¢500.00.&nbsp; Being dissatisfied and
aggrieved with the said judgment, the Interested Party/Appellant/Appellant
lodged the current appeal.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Grounds of Appeal:<o:p></o:p>Following the grant of an application for Extension of
Time within which to file an Appeal, the Interested Party/Appellant/Appellant
filed his Notice of Appeal and set down the following Grounds of Appeal:<o:p></o:p>“a)&nbsp; Their Lordships in the Court of Appeal erred
when they rested their &nbsp;<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; decision on a ground not set out by the
Appellant before them and failed to &nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offer the parties opportunity of contesting
the case on that ground.<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Having found from the available evidence on
record as a fact that Exhibits 1 &amp; 2 being the Chieftaincy Declaration
(C.D.) forms and Letter from the National House of Chiefs were not false
because there was no case pending against the Appellant at any forum, which was
the gravamen of the Applicant’s case before the High Court, Kumasi, their
Lordships should have ended the matter, and not to have formulated a ground
which was not before the</main>