<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>LUTTERODT J</strong>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">After the death and burial of Nii Aponsah III, Otublohum Mantse in 1989 the different ruling houses of this division of the Ga Traditional Council became embroiled in a dispute which has been described by the applicants as “touching the rights of the traditional office holders of the respective ruling houses for the nomination, election or installation of a new Otublohum Mantse.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The three applicants, who are representatives of their respective ruling houses, contend that while that dispute was pending before the Ga Traditional Council the second respondent withdrew the matter and appointed a panel of non-chiefs to hear and determine same, with a government white paper being subsequently published in respect of that panel’s findings.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The applicants are in these proceedings, therefore praying for an order of certiorari to issue to bring up to be quashed the government white paper on the report of the panel so appointed by the second respondent. The application is founded on t…</p>