REPUBLIC V. AKIM ABUAKWA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL; EX PARTE ANTWI AND ANOTHER

ABAKAH J.

By this application, the applicants want an order of this court to bring up to be quashed a decision of the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Council and/or the Kyebi Executive Council given on 8 April 1986 at Kibi in the suit entitled Opanin Kwasi Antwi and Lieutenant-Colonel (Rtd.) Isaac Osei Agyare v. Nana Kwakye Ababio II and Baffour Atta Yaw. The application is of course being opposed by the respondents.

The facts relied upon by the applicants in support of their application derive from the affidavit filed by them. They are stated thus: The royal Asona family of Kwabeng in the Akim Abuakwa Traditional Area is made up of three houses, namely Kokoben; Babaduam; and Akwanwenem. It has been the custom that the queenmother of Kwabeng is appointed from any of these three houses after the principal members of these houses and the chief of Kwabeng have entered into consultations. The first applicant who swore to the supporting affidavit on behalf of himself and on behalf of the second ap…