THE REPUBLIC vs. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, LANDS COMMISSION SECRETARIAT, ACCRA. EX-PARTE NII JAFRO MENSAH LARKAI AND IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY ARTHUR HAMMOND TETTEH QUARCOO FOR JOINDER AS AN INTERESTED PARTY ARTHUR HAMMOND TETTEH QUARCOO vs. NII JAFRO MENSAH LARKAI [2016]DLCA8549

THE REPUBLIC vs. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, LANDS COMMISSION SECRETARIAT, ACCRA. E... [2016]DLCA8549

Date	2016-02-18
Suit No.	CIVIL APPEAL NO: HI/03/2016
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA8549

KANYOKE JA (PRESIDING)

ADUAMA OSEI JA

WELBOURNE JA (MRS)

JAMES AHENKORAH FOR RESPONDENT/APPELLANT

A. G. BOADU FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT

[2016]DLCA8549
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, LANDS COMMISSION SECRETARIAT, ACCRA.<o:p></o:p>EX-PARTE NII JAFRO MENSAH LARKAI<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">AND<o:p></o:p>IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY ARTHUR HAMMOND TETTEH QUARCOO
FOR JOINDER AS AN INTERESTED PARTY<o:p></o:p>ARTHUR HAMMOND
TETTEH QUARCOO<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B0F0">vs.<o:p></o:p>NII JAFRO
MENSAH LARKAI<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT/APPELLANT)<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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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">CIVIL APPEAL NO: HI/03/2016&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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: 18TH
FEBRUARY, 2016<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>JAMES
AHENKORAH FOR 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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A.
G. BOADU FOR APPLICANT/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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KANYOKE
JA (PRESIDING), ADUAMA OSEI JA, WELBOURNE JA (MRS)<o:p></o:p>

</div>ADUAMA OSEI<o:p></o:p>On the 27th of November, 2013, Nii Jafro
Mensah Larkai caused to be filed in the Lands Division of the High Court,
Accra, an application for an order of mandamus directed at the Executive
Secretary o f the Lands Commission Secretariat. In the affidavit supporting the
application, Nii Jafro Mensah Larkai claimed to be the Head of the Onamrokor
Adain family of Gbese, Accra. He claimed that as Head of the said family, he
had power “to execute instruments and
other documents in transactions concerning the family’s lands and other
properties and give valid discharges for monies paid to the family by any
person or institution, government or otherwise”.<o:p></o:p>His complaint against the Executive Secretary of
the Lands Commission Secretariat was that the Secretariat had refused to
acknowledge him as the substantive head of the Onamrokor Adain family and had
therefore neglected the documents executed by him for processing. A further
complaint was that as a result of the failure of the Executive Secretary to
accord him recognition as Head of the family, the Administrator of Stool Lands
had been reluctant to release sums of money due to the family to him. He
considered that without an order of mandamus issued by the High Court, the
Executive Secretary would not accord him the recognition that he deserved.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>Before the application for mandamus could be heard,
Arthur Hammond Tetteh Quarcoo applied under Order 4, rule 5(2)(b) of the High
Court Rules, CI 47, to be joined as an interested party, and the High Court
made an order joining him as such. Nii Jafro Mensah Larkai however considers
that the High Court was in error in joining Arthur Hammond Tetteh Quarcoo as an
interested party and he has filed an appeal to this Court against the said
order. <o:p></o:p>The Ruling in which the order of joinder was made
is at page 46 to page 52 of the Appeal Record, and the Notice of Appeal is at
page 54 to page 56 of the said Record.&nbsp;
The Notice of Appeal discloses 4 grounds of objection to the Ruling of
the High Court and it prays this Court to set aside the order of joinder made
by the High Court and dismiss the application for joinder.&nbsp; It also seeks from this Court an order sending
the application for mandamus back to the High Court to be heard by a different
judge.<o:p></o:p>Nii Jafro Mensah Larkai is hereafter referred to as
“the Appellant” and Arthur Hammond
Tetteh Quarcoo is referred to as “the
Respondent”.<o:p></o:p>The Appellant’s grounds of objection read as
follows:<o:p></o:p>“(i)
The learned judge erred in failing to gi</main>