THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, SEKONDI EX-PARTE: GEORGE KINGSLEY KWASI AMPONG, INTERESTED PARTIES; NANA KWADU KYEREFO III [2011]DLSC4093

THE REPUBLIC vs. HIGH COURT, SEKONDI EX-PARTE: GEORGE KINGSLEY KWASI AMPONG, INT... [2011]DLSC4093

Date	2011-03-29
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. J5/16/2011
Citation No.	[2011]DLSC4093

ATUGUBA JSC (PRESIDING)

OWUSU JSC

ARYEETEY JSC

GBADEGBE JSC

AKOTO-BAMFO JSC

W. A. N. ADUMUA-BOSSMAN FOR THE APPELLANT

E. K. AMUA SEKYI FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES

[2011]DLSC4093
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>HIGH COURT, SEKONDI
EX-PARTE: GEORGE KINGSLEY KWASI AMPONG, INTERESTED PARTIES; NANA KWADU KYEREFO
III<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 MOTION NO. J5/16/2011&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: 29TH MARCH,
2011<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>W. A. N. ADUMUA-BOSSMAN
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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E.
K. AMUA SEKYI FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES<o:p></o:p>

ATUGUBA JSC (PRESIDING),
OWUSU JSC, ARYEETEY JSC, GBADEGBE JSC, AND AKOTO-BAMFO JSC<o:p></o:p>

</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>AKOTO
BAMFO J.S.C.<o:p></o:p>It is the prayer of the
applicant herein George Kingsley Kwasi Ampong alias Odeneho Akrufa Krukoko II
that the ruling of the High Court, Sekondi dated the 21st of December,2010
be brought up and quashed on the grounds set out in the supporting affidavit
consisting of 19 paragraphs.<o:p></o:p>In brief, the events
culminating in the present application are as follows;<o:p></o:p>On the 11th of
June 2010; the Chieftaincy Tribunal of the Western Regional House of Chiefs gave
a default Judgment in suit number 11/20/10. Nana Kwando Kyerefo III +5 Ors, the
interested parties herein were the petitioners whereas George Kingsley Kwasi Ampong
a. k. a. Odeneho Akrufa Krukoko II, the applicant herein was the respondent.<o:p></o:p>At the end of the proceedings,
the chieftaincy Tribunal made this pronouncement;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “The
respondent George K. Ampong is hereby declared as having been customarily
destooled as Omanhene of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area with effect from 23rd
April 2002.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
respondent is perpetually restrained from in any manner holding himself out as
Omanhene of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area”&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;&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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>Subsequently a motion by
the applicant to set aside the default judgment&nbsp;
was on 27 October 2010 dismissed by the Chieftaincy Tribunal on grounds
that the applicant could not be heard since he was in contempt of the orders of
the Chieftaincy Tribunal&nbsp; made on &nbsp;the 11th of June 2010.<o:p></o:p>The applicant thereafter
filed before the Sekondi High Court a motion for a judicial review in the
nature of Certiorari to quash the ruling of the Chieftaincy Tribunal on the 27th
of October 2010.The said application was dismissed by the High Court, Sekondi
on 21 December 2010. The instant application seeks, as stated earlier, to have
the ruling that dismissed the application for judicial review brought up before
this court and quashed on the se</main>