THE REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT, KUMASI EXPARTE: KING TACKIE TEIKO TSURU II & 3 ORS

RULING

This is an application for certiorari to quash the decision of the High Court, Kumasi dated 11th November, 2021 and a further quashing of the orders of the Court of Appeal dated 12th June, 2025. We have carefully read the motion paper and the affidavit in support together with the exhibits as well as the affidavit in opposition and the exhibit thereto. We listened to the lawyers of the parties argue their respective cases and have given deep consideration to the matters arising in the proceedings.

The main ground on which the applicant has mounted his application is, that before the High Court, Kumasi made the order for the name of the 2nd Interested Party to be entered into the National Register of Chiefs, he the Applicant’s name had been entered already in the Register of Chiefs as Ga Mantse. He submits that by the entry of his name he had acquired certain statutory rights on account of Section 57 (5) of the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act 759) such that if the High Court’s decision…