AMUA-SEKYI JSC.
The facts of the case are straightforward. The appellant, who claims to be Adansihene in Ashanti, lodged a petition with the Regional House of Chiefs. When a judicial committee was appointed to go into the matter, he objected to two members of the panel on the ground that the Asanteman Council, a non-statutory body with no jurisdiction in causes or matters affecting chieftaincy, of which all members of the Regional House are members had, at a meeting, declared the appellant’s alleged enstoolment as Adansihene to be improper. When the two withdrew and the committee was re-constituted he raised the same objection. This time, he was overruled. He lodged an appeal with the National House of Chiefs and, as it appears, simultaneously applied to the High Court, Kumasi, for an order of prohibition. He failed in both the High Court, and before the National House. This appeal is from the decision of the latter.
We have read with the utmost care the record of proceedings submitted …