AIKINS JSC Delivered the first judgment at the invitation of Abban CJ.
This is an appeal from the decision of the judicial committee of the National House of Chiefs by which they affirmed, by a majority of three to two, the unanimous judgment of the judicial committee of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs which had held that the seventh respondent is not a royal of the Mampong silver stool, and that he is not eligible for nomination, election and installation on the silver stool which had become vacant on the abdication of Nana Attakora Amaniampong as the Omanhene of the Mampong Traditional Area. The committee accordingly declared the nomination, election and installation of the seventh respondent, Mr Francis Kwasi Cartey, null and void.
The events leading to the institution of the petition by the respondent to this appeal, Major (Rtd) Osei Kwaku, are not all that complex.
Sometime after the abdication of Nana Attakora Amaniampong as the Omanhene of the Mampong Traditional Area, it be…