REPUBLIC V. BONSU AND OTHERS; EX PARTE FOLSON

KANYOKE J.

The applicant is one of the widows of the late Akwasi Agyemang Bonsu of Kumasi who died intestate on or about 25 May 1996. The late Akwasi Agyemang Bonsu was survived by 31 children, four of whom are with the applicant herein. No letters of administration have since been taken in respect of the estate of the late Akwasi Agyemang Bonsu.

However, despite this, the applicant alleged that sometime after the death of the late Akwasi Agyemang Bonsu, the respondents who are two brothers and a sister of the late Akwasi Agyemang Bonsu, met and distributed the estate of her deceased husband and shared those properties forming the estate amongst themselves contrary to the provisions of the Intestate Succession Law, 1985 (PNDCL 111). When this came to the knowledge of the applicant, she caused her solicitor to write to the first respondent, the then head of the late Agyemang Bonsu’s family, warning him of the consequences of their action and advising the first respondent and the other r…