<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><u>JUDGMENT</u></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>QUAYE J. </strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pursuant to leave granted by the High Court, Kumasi on 15 January 1997 the applicants herein filed this motion under Order 59, rr 4 and 5 of the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (LN 140A) for an order of certiorari to quash an alleged oral pronouncement by the respondents purported at destooling the first applicant herein as queenmother of Apagya and the second applicant as head of the Ekuona royal family of Apagya on 29 December 1996. It is the complaint of the applicants that the purported act of the respondents is illegal, ultra vires the respondents and sins against the known tenets of natural justice. The applicants contend that the first applicant has been the incumbent queenmother of Apagya where the first respondent is chief, continuously for the past 25 years. She has been enjoying the rights and privileges of that position, as well as performing the obligations attendant thereto without let, until recently when she voiced disapproval of certain condu…</p>