THE REPUBLIC V. THE REGISTRAR & PRESIDENT, OF NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS, KUMASI AND THE REGISTRAR & PRESIDENT, CENTRAL REGIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS, CAPE COAST EX-PARTE: EBUSUAPANTIN KOJO YAMOAH AND NANA ABOR YAMOAH

JUDGEMENT

APPAU, JSC

This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal dated 27^th February 2017. The 1^st appellant is the Ebusuapanyin of the 2^nd appellant’s royal family of Gomoa Fetteh whilst the 2^nd appellant Nana Abor Yamoah II, is the chief of Gomoa Fetteh. They would, hereinafter, be referred to simply as appellants.

The background to this appeal is that; on the 27^th day of February 2012, the Central Regional House of Chiefs wrote a letter to the National House of Chiefs requesting the National House of Chiefs to expunge the name of the 2^nd appellant from the National Register of Chiefs (Register) as the Chief of Gomoa Fetteh and the Twafohene of Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area. When the appellants got wind of this letter which was written without any notice to them, they filed a suit in the High Court, Cape Coast against both the National House of Chiefs and the Central Regional House of Chiefs as 1^st and 2^nd defendants respectively. The reliefs sought in the writ wer…