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THE REPUBLIC V. THE HIGH COURT TEMA EXPARTE: NANA KWANDOH BREMPONG III & 2 ORS

(2021) JELR 109748 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  J5/09/2021  •  21 Jul 2021  •  Ghana

Coram
DOTSE, JSC (PRESIDING) PNGWAMA, JSC MARFUL-SAU, JSC TORKORNOO, JSC AMADU, JSC

Judgement

RULING 

MARFUL-SAU JSC:- 

The applicants in this proceedings are praying for an order of certiorari directed at the  High Court, Tema presided over by Ankamah, J. to quash the ruling of that court dated  the 14th October 2020 in the suit No. E12/052/2021, entitled IN THE MATTER OF AN  APPLICATION BY ODENEHO AKROFA KRUKOKO II AND EX-PARTE MOTION FOR AN  ORDER COMPELLING THE NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS TO RE-ENTER THE NAME OF  APPLICANT INTO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF CHIEFS AS OMANHENE OF THE WASSA  FIASE TRADITIONAL AREA TO COMPLY WITH THE DECISION OF THE WESTERN  REGIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS PURSUANT TO SECTION 37 (1) OF THE CHIEFTAINCY ACT  (ACT 759). The applicants further prayed that the trial Judge be prohibited from further  hearing the suit for lack of jurisdiction. 

The applicant in the said suit who is the 2nd interested party herein had applied to the  High Court, Tema through an Ex-parte application to enforce a ruling of the Western  Regional House of Chiefs dated the 19th August 2015…

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