THE REPUBLIC vs. THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF DENKYIRA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EX PARTE: EBU. KWABENA AFOAKOH AND 3 OTHERS AND JOSEPH NKUAH MENSAH &NANA KWAA AKOSUAH, DENKYIRA [2014]DLCA4551

THE REPUBLIC vs. THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF DENKYIRA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EX PARTE... [2014]DLCA4551

Date	2014-06-12
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO. HI/17/14
Citation No.	[2014]DLCA4551

C. J. HONYENUGA J.A. (PRESIDING)

D. D. ADJEI J.A.

B. F. ACKAH-YENSU (MS) J.A.

MR. MICHAEL MONNIE FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES/APPELLANT

MR. PETER KWAKU NTI FOR THE APPLICANTS/REPONDENTS

[2014]DLCA4551
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF DENKYIRA
TRADITIONAL COUNCIL<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE: EBU. KWABENA
AFOAKOH AND 3 OTHERS (APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS) AND JOSEPH NKUAH
MENSAH &amp;NANA KWAA AKOSUAH, DENKYIRA (INTERESTED PARTIES/APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, CAPE COAST]<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.&nbsp; HI/17/14 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;12TH
JUNE, 2014<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR.
MICHAEL MONNIE FOR THE INTERESTED PARTIES/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>C. J. HONYENUGA
J.A. (PRESIDING), D. D. ADJEI J.A., B. F. ACKAH-YENSU (MS) J.A.<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:
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</div>HONYENUGA, J.A.<o:p></o:p>This is
an appeal against the Judgment of the High Court, Cape Coast dated the 10th
day of April, 2013.&nbsp; The said court
granted an application for Judicial Review filed by the applicant/respondents.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The facts
of this appeal are that on the 19th September, 2011 the applicants/respondents
issued a writ at the Judicial Committee of the Denkyira Traditional Council,
the respondent/respondent herein against the Interested parties/appellants
claiming as follows:-<o:p></o:p>“a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order for the
annulment or setting aside of the purported nomination, election and
enstoolment of the said MR. JOSEPH MENSAH @ KWABENA EBO, the defendant herein
as the Chief or Odikro or Ohene of Nkotumso-Nkasawura within the Denkyira
Traditional area in the Upper Denkyira Traditional District in the Central
Region of the Republic of Ghana on the grounds stated in the statement of claim
attached hereto.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order of perpetual
injunction restraining the defendant from acting and or parading or holding
himself or allowing himself to be referred in any way or manner as the Chief or
Odikro or Ohene of Nkotumso-Nkasawura.<o:p></o:p>c.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An order of perpetual injunction
restraining the defendant by himself or anybody claiming through him from in
any way parading himself or allowing himself to be referred to as the Chief or
Odikro .<o:p></o:p>d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any other relief(s) that
Nananom may deem fit to order or grant in the circumstances”.<o:p></o:p>The
applicants/appellants followed up with a motion for Interlocutory injunction to
restrain the 1st interested party/appellant from holding himself out
or allowing himself to be referred to as the Chief or Odikro of
Nkokumso-Nkasawura within the Denkyira Traditional Area in the Upper Denkyira
West District in the Central Region of Ghana until the final determination of
the substantive suit.&nbsp; The motion for
interlocutory injunction was heard and a ruling which the Committee labelled as
judgment was delivered which ruling virtually disposed of the substantive
suit.&nbsp; Dissatisfied with the state of
affairs, the applicants/respondents filed an application for Judicial Review of
Certiorari and prohibition to quash the said judgment.&nbsp; Upon hearing the parties the learned trial
judge on 10th April, 2013 granted the application, quashed the
decision of the Judicial Committee and restrained the Committee from continuing
with the hearing.&nbsp; The learned trial
judge also ordered a re-trial of the case by a differently constituted panel
and awarded costs of GH¢800.00 against the interested parties/appellants.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Being
aggrieved by the decision of the High Court judge, the interested
parties/appellants filed the instant appeal based on the following grounds:-<o:p></o:p>“a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The trial court erred in
law by stating that the Committee was unreasonable and erred in law when it
rejected the plea of counsel for plaintiff to file fresh affidavit despite the
overt provisions in section 31(4) of Act 759 as it acted within jurisdiction.<o:p></o:p>b.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The court erred in law by
invoking Wednesbury Principle in determining this matter as same is more
related to Public law and Administrative decisions.<o:p></o:p</main>