THE REPUBLIC vs. KUMASI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EX PARTE ABUSUAPANIN OWUSU AFRAM AND NANA MENSAH BONSU [2017]DLCA4546

THE REPUBLIC vs. KUMASI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EX PARTE ABUSUAPANIN OWUSU AFRAM AND... [2017]DLCA4546

Date	2017-01-17
Suit No.	CIVIL MOTION NO. H1/17/2016
Citation No.	[2017]DLCA4546

E. K. AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA

GERTRUDE TORKORNOO

(MRS.) JA

ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS.) JA

MR. SAMUEL AWADIIMA ANYAMASAH FOR APPLICANT/APPELLANT

MR. YAW BOAFOR FOR RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT

MR. KWAKU YEBOAH APPIAH FOR INTERESTED PARTY/ RESPONDENT

[2017]DLCA4546
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>KUMASI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE ABUSUAPANIN
OWUSU AFRAM (APPLICANT/APPELLANT) AND NANA MENSAH BONSU
(INTERESTED
PARTY/RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF
APPEAL, KUMASI]<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.&nbsp; H1/17/2016 &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;TUESDAY,
17TH JANUARY 2017<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>MR. SAMUEL AWADIIMA ANYAMASAH FOR
APPLICANT/APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>MR. YAW BOAFOR FOR
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MR. KWAKU YEBOAH APPIAH FOR
INTERESTED PARTY/ RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>E. K.
AYEBI (PRESIDING) JA, GERTRUDE TORKORNOO, (MRS.) JA, ANGELINA M. DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS.) JA<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%;
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</div>AYEBI,
JA<o:p></o:p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
On
22nd December 2014, the applicant/appellant filed a motion on notice
for an order of judicial review by way of mandamus requiring “the
Respondent Traditional Council within a time to be fixed herein to appoint and
arrange to be sworn in, 5 of its members as Judicial Committee Members, and
promptly publicize notice of the establishment of a Judicial Committee by
sections 29 and 15(5) of the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act 759) and by Regulations
2 and 3 of L.I. 798/1972 (The Traditional Councils Regulations); And for such
further or other order or orders as to the court may appear just or proper”.&nbsp; The applicant/appellant joined the Kaasehene
Nana Mensah Bonsu to the application as an Interested Party.<o:p></o:p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
background to this application for Judicial Review is as follows:&nbsp; the applicant/appellant claimed to be the
head of the Aduana family of Kaase.&nbsp; It
is from this family that Kaasehene and Kaasehemaa are installed since time
immemorial.&nbsp; That late Kaasehene Nana
Owusu Ababio who died on 28th November 2008, hailed from this
clan.&nbsp; But the Interested
Party/Respondent who neither has any blood relationship with anybody in Kaase
or any ancestral home in Kaase, with the support of the “cross-carpet” Obaapanin
Abena Konadu, has been installed as the new Kaasehene.<o:p></o:p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
applicant/appellant averred that upon legal advice, he and his supporters
decided to bring an action in the Judicial Committee of the
respondent/respondent Council to determine the validity of the claim of the
Interested Party/respondent to the stool and the validity of his enstoolment as
Kaasehene.&nbsp; The applicant averred in
paragraph 4 of the affidavit in support of the motion that they approached the
Registrar of the Respondent, one Enock Okyere on 18th December 2014,
to file their petition.&nbsp; But the
Registrar told them that the Respondent Council had not yet appointed a
Judicial Committee and had not even discussed establishing one.<o:p></o:p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Additional
to the above information the Registrar gave the applicant on presentation of
the petition, the applicant has also alleged outside the averments in his
affidavit in support that the Registrar also told him that since 1999 the
Respondent Council took a decision that all chieftaincy matters arising within
its traditional area be referred to customary arbitration for determination and
that on perusing the applicant’s petition he realized that the matters raised
concerning the Kaase Stool Affairs had already been determined by customary
arbitration initiated by applicant before the Respondent Council and applicant
lost.<o:p></o:p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
It
is the case of the applicant that, in view of the information the Regis</main>