THE REPUBLIC vs. THE ADA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL AND SAMUEL ATTEH AGGUDEY [2017]DLCA4455

Date	2017-12-07
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H1/151/17
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA4455

ADUAMA OSEI J.A. (PRESIDING)

WELBOURNE (MRS) J.A.

KWOFIE JA

COUNSEL FOR APPLICANT/RESPONDENT – KWASI AUSTIN AND NANA A. JAINIE

COUNSEL FOR RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS AND INTERESTED PARTIES/APPELLANTS – FOSU GYEABOUR

[2017]DLCA4455
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ATTEH AGGUDEY<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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(APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS) AND NUMO OKLU AGGUDEY AND 2 OTHERS (INTERESTED
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COUNSEL FOR RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS AND INTERESTED
PARTIES/APPELLANTS – FOSU GYEABOUR <o:p></o:p>

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(PRESIDING), WELBOURNE (MRS) J.A., KWOFIE JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US">WELBOURNE (MRS), J.A.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>In
this judgment, the 1st Respondent/Appellant is the Ada Traditional
Council. The 2nd Respondent/Appellant is Samuel Attah Aggudey. The 1st
Applicant/Respondent is Patrick Aggudey, the 2nd
Applicant/Respondent is Emmanuel Tetteh Aggudey and the 3rd
Applicant/Respondent is Narh Numoda Obinchere. We also have Interested Parties
Appellants as Numo Oklu Aggudey and Wallace Tetteh Kofi Agguddey.<o:p></o:p>This appeal
arises from the decision of the High Court Accra dated 26th January,
2017, (Human Rights Division), following the grant of the Respondents
application for judicial review.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;Brief facts<o:p></o:p>The parties to
this dispute, following a long standing dispute as to who should be the proper
person to ascend the Mankralo Stool of Ada, the 1st Respondent and
the 2nd Appellant hereto, representing their respective gates,
submitted to Arbitration to finally resolve the matter. After participating in
the said Arbitration, an award was delivered on the 29th of March,
2012.<o:p></o:p>The Arbitral
award was to the effect that the position of Mankralo in the Ada traditional
Area was to be ascended to on rotational basis between the family of the 2nd
Appellant and the family of the 1st Respondent. The award also
adjudged that the 1st Respondent’s family should be the first to
produce a Mankralo.<o:p></o:p>Following the
award, all necessary rites were performed to install the 1st Respondent
as the Mankralo of the Ada state. The outstanding ceremony was to introduce the
Mankralo to the Ada Traditional Council which would mark his formal admission
to the Council.<o:p></o:p>After the
delivery of the Arbitral Award, the 2nd Appellant, the rival Mankralo
candidate, brought a Petition before the Judicial Committee of the Ada
Traditional Council seeking to set aside the Arbitral Award and seeking a
declaration confirming him as the next Mankralo of Ada. The 1st Respondent
herein filed a motion to dismiss the said Petition on the grounds that the
Judicial Committee did not have the jurisdiction to entertain actions seeking
to set aside an arbitral award. <o:p></o:p>