THE REPUBLIC vs. ESI TAKYIWA, KWASI APPIAH AND KWASI DONKOR EX PARTE: NANA ADARKWA YIADOM AND NANA AMA AFISEE III [2015]DLCA8325

THE REPUBLIC vs. ESI TAKYIWA, KWASI APPIAH AND KWASI DONKOR EX PARTE: NANA ADARK... [2015]DLCA8325

Date	2015-05-13
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL SUIT NO. H1/02/15
Citation No.	[2015]DLCA8325

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

S.K. GYAN J.A.

G.S. SUURBAAREH J.A.

MR. AMPONSAH DADZIE FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND RESPONDENTS/ APPELLANT

MR. MICHAEL ANTWI DADZIE FOR THE 3RD RESPONDENT/ APPELLANT

MR. S. E. ABEKAH FOR THE APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS

[2015]DLCA8325
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">vs.<o:p></o:p>ESI TAKYIWA, KWASI APPIAH AND KWASI DONKOR<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE: NANA ADARKWA YIADOM AND NANA AMA AFISEE III<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS)<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 SUIT NO. H1/02/15&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 13TH MAY, 2015<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR. AMPONSAH DADZIE FOR THE 1ST AND 2ND
RESPONDENTS/ APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>MR. MICHAEL ANTWI DADZIE FOR THE 3RD
RESPONDENT/ APPELLANT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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MR. S. E. ABEKAH FOR
THE APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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C.J. HONYENUGA J.A.
(PRESIDING), S.K. GYAN J.A., G.S. SUURBAAREH J.A.<o:p></o:p>

</div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>HONYENUGA, J.A. <o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>This is an appeal against the
judgment of the High Court, Tarkwa dated the 28th April, 2014. In
this appeal, the Respondents/Appellants would be simply referred to as 1st,
2nd and 3rd Appellants and the Applicants/Respondents as
the respondents.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The facts of this appeal are
that the Respondents took an action against the appellants before the Wassa
Fiase Traditional Council seeking among others a declaration that the
respondents’ gate was the only gate who could ascend the Bepo Stool and that
the Appellants were strangers and could not ascend the Stool.&nbsp; The Arbitration Committee of the said
Traditional Council with the consent of the parties arbitrated over the matter
and delivered their decision, which stated that the respondents’ Atweaa family
own the Bepo Stool and the appellants were ordered to return all Stool regalia
to the respondents, among others.&nbsp; The
appellants being dissatisfied with the decision, the 3rd appellant
and one Ebusuapanyin Yaw Nyaadu applied to the High Court, Tarkwa for an order
of certiorari to quash the decision of the Arbitration Committee of the Wassa
Fiase Traditional Council.&nbsp; The High
Court in its Ruling dismissed the appellants’ application and declared that
what took place between the parties was a valid customary arbitration.&nbsp; The respondents then took out a writ at the
District Court, Tarkwa for an order of an enforcement of the arbitration
award.&nbsp; The court delivered its judgment
and declared that:<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:2.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%">“1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The plaintiffs are entitled to the enforcement of the
arbitration award published on March 11. 2003.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:2.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:2.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%">2. Costs of GH¢1,000.00 is awarded in favour of plaintiffs.”<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The appellants having refused
to surrender the Stool regalia according to the decision of t</main>