THE REPUBLIC vs. YAW EMILE, KWAME PASAHIN EX-PARTE: EBUSUAPANYIN YAW NIME & 3 ORS [2022]DLHC17087

THE REPUBLIC vs. YAW EMILE, KWAME PASAHIN EX-PARTE: EBUSUAPANYIN YAW NIME & 3 OR... [2022]DLHC17087

Date	2022-11-14
Suit No.	SUIT NO: E9/27/22
Citation No.	[2022]DLHC17087

HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND OSEI-HWERE

BENEDICTA GYEMFUAH KESSE

STEPHEN KWESI KESSE ESQ.

GODWIN ACQUAH ESQ

ISRAEL ACKAH ESQ

[2022]DLHC17087
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</div>COUNSEL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>BENEDICTA
GYEMFUAH KESSE FOR STEPHEN KWESI KESSE ESQ. FOR APPLICANTS<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;">

GODWIN ACQUAH ESQ FOR ISRAEL ACKAH ESQ. FOR RESPONDENTS<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE DR. RICHMOND
OSEI-HWERE<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: black; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: black; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 4.5pt; margin-right: -2.5pt;">

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</div>This ruling is in respect of
an application filed by the Applicant herein on the 17th February, 2022 praying
for the committal of the Respondents for contempt of court.<o:p></o:p>The background facts leading
to the contempt proceedings are fairly simple and admit of little controversy.
The Applicants in this case instituted an action against the Respondents in
this case and some other persons at the Judicial Committee of the Regional
House of Chiefs for the reliefs that the re-nomination of the 4th Defendant the
(2nd Respondent herein) is wrong and done in bad faith only to disentitle the
4th Plaintiff (the 4th Applicant herein) from being enstooled as a chief and
for that reason the 2nd Respondent should be disqualified.
Applicants further filed a motion for an order for interlocutory injunction on
that very day, that is the 9/2/22 against the Defendants therein and
Respondents herein to restrain them from enstooling the 2nd
Respondent pending the final determination of the suit. These are attached as
Exhibits ‘A’ and ‘B’.<o:p></o:p>Applicants’ case is that on
the same day of issuance of the writ and the injunction application (i.e. on
9/02/2022), all the Defendants were served with the processes. Applicants
contend that in spite of the service, the Defendants including the 1st
Respondent proceeded with the enstoolment of the 2nd Respondent as
the Chief of Sekyere Krobo.<o:p></o:p>It is Applicants’ case that
the acts of the Respondents amount to contempt of court because by the action
of the Defendants in installing the 2nd Respondent as the chief of
Sekyere Krobo when they knew of the pendency of the injunction application,
they have prejudiced the hearing of the case by the Judicial Committee of the
Sekondi-Takoradi Traditional Area. That the acts of the Respondents have also
brought the dignity of the court into disrepute as the Respondents have done
the very act the writ of summons and the injunction was inviting the Judicial
Committee to do. Applicants further contend that the act of installing the 2nd
Respondent as the Chief of Sekyere Krobo have prejudiced the hearing of the case.
<o:p></o:p>Respondents are opposed to
the application. It is their case that the application for injunction was
brought in bad faith as it was served on them after installation of the 2nd
Respondent had been completed on 11th February, 2022. That 1st
Respondent’s installation as Chief of Sekyere Krobo took place from 4th
of February, 2022 as he was confined till 10th of February, 2022 and
out doored on the 11th of February, 2022. That 1st
Respondent was not served with any process by a bailiff within that period.
Respondents insist that they are law abiding citizens and that they have not
acted in any manner to bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
Respondents also say that their names were wrongly stated in the application
for committal for contempt of court. That the 1st Respondent is
known as Yaw Empir and the 2nd Respondent is also called Kwame
Bassanyi with the stool name, Nana Kwaw Badu II.<o:p></o:p><</main>