THE REPUBLIC vs. EMMANUEL NII TARTEY TACKIE-YAOBOI AND FIVE OTHERS EX PARTE NII DR. TETTEH KWEI II [2020]DLHC9983

THE REPUBLIC vs. EMMANUEL NII TARTEY TACKIE-YAOBOI AND FIVE OTHERS EX PARTE NII... [2020]DLHC9983

Date	2020-10-20
Suit No.	SUIT NUMBER: CR/0434/2000
Citation No.	[2020]DLHC9983

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE CONSTANT K. HOMETOWU

LADY GIFTY TETTEH ESQ. - COUNSEL FOR THE APPLICANT

STEPHEN ASANTE BEKOE ESQ. - COUNSEL FOR 1ST 2ND 3RD 5TH AND 7TH RESPONDENTS

JUSTIN PWAVRA TERIWAJAH ESQ. - COUNSEL FOR THE 4TH AND 6TH RESPONDENTS.

[2020]DLHC9983
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOR
COMMITTAL FOR CONTEMPT<o:p></o:p>THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>EMMANUEL NII TARTEY TACKIE-YAOBOI AND
FIVE OTHERS (RESPONDENTS)<o:p></o:p>EX PARTE NII DR. TETTEH KWEI II<o:p></o:p>(APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT,
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NUMBER: CR/0434/2000&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: 20TH OCTOBER 2020<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>LADY GIFTY TETTEH, ESQ., - COUNSEL FOR THE APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>STEPHEN ASANTE BEKOE, ESQ., - COUNSEL FOR 1ST, 2ND,
3RD, 5TH, AND 7TH RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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AND 6TH RESPONDENTS.<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE CONSTANT K. HOMETOWU<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;On 2nd
June 2020, Counsel for the Applicant filed the instant motion on notice for an
order for committal of contempt of court, pursuant to order 50 of the High
Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2014, CI 47.<o:p></o:p>The affidavit in
support of the application is a litany of allegations levelled against the
Respondents, severally and jointly, in a consolidated petition challenging the
installation of King Tackie Tawiah III as Ga Mantse, following the demise, on
10 December 2004, of the then Ga Mantse, Boni Nii Amugi Soose II. In all six
(6) suits were instituted before the Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra
Regional House of Chiefs, Dodowa, challenging the installation of King Tackie
Tawiah III, known in private life as Dr. Jo Blankson.<o:p></o:p>In pursuit of the
challenge, the Respondents filed, before the Judicial Committee of the Greater
Accra Regional House of Chiefs, a Motion on Notice for an Interlocutory Order
of Injunction seeking to restrain King Tackie Tawiah III from performing the
duties and functions of Ga Mantse. The said motion was dismissed on 18th
July 2008. <o:p></o:p>Thereafter, a
plethora of suits were filed before the Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra
Regional House of Chiefs, leading the issuance of rulings by the latter, among
which, for instance, Nii Yaote Oto-Ga was restrained from holding himself out
as the Ga Paramount Stool Dzasetse. Again, all the Defendants were restrained
by themselves, their agents, servants, privies, assigns from interfering with
the Ga Paramount Stool Dzasetse’s functions and duties.<o:p></o:p>The affidavit in
support of the instant application states further, among others, that the
Respondents “on the 11 day of June 2011, uncustomarily and unlawfully broke
into the Ga Paramount Stool House at Tunma We, Abola-Accra and purports to have
undertaken Nii Tackie Adama Latse II through an installation ceremony as Ga
Mantse…” <o:p></o:p>Deponent further
alleged that “the conduct and behavior of the Respondents is an exhibition of
gross, unimaginable and unmitigated disrespect for the processes of the
Honourable Court and without doubt Contempt of Court”.<o:p></o:p>Deponent prayed the
Court to ‘impose custodial sentences on the Respondents as the only appropriate
punishment for their contumelious behavior in addition to any other punishment
that the Honourable Court would impose on them”.<o:p></o:p>On 23rd
June 2020, Counsel for the 4th and 6th Respondents filed
a notice of preliminary legal objection, notifying the parties that he will
raise the following questions as preliminary points of law.<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
 justify;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Having regards to the fact that applicant’s motion is grounded on
 cases to which he is no party, whether the applicant has capacity to
 maintain the instant application for contempt of court and whether the
 said application is not incompetent and dismissible in limine; and<o:p></o:p></li>
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