REPUBLIC
V.
PRESIDENT OF GBI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL; EX PARTE TOGBE KWASI BUAMI VII AND OTHERS

(1974) JELR 69937 (HC)

High Court · 7 Nov 1974 · Ghana
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Other Citations

[1974] 2 GLR 427

CORAM

ANTERKYI J.

Core Terms ^Beta

applicants

respondent

judicial committee

local government bulletin

provisions of section

national register of chiefs

chieftaincy act

first applicant

membership of a traditional council

member of the council

president of the gbi traditional council

commencement of this act

gbi traditional council

members of the judicial committee of the council

members of the present gbi traditional council

mr. wuaku

learned state attorney

membership of that council

members of the gbi traditional council

members of the traditional council

paramount chief of the gbi traditional area

togbe gabusu v

virtue of section

attitude of the first applicant

ceremony of members of the judicial committee

ceremony of the traditional council

chiefs of that area

clan chief of hohoe

commencement of act

exclusive jurisdiction

judicial swearing

legal right

meetings of the council

meetings of the gbi traditional council

meetings of the traditional council

members of the judicial committee of that council

members of the old gbi traditional council

names of the applicants

old gbi traditional council

president of the judicial committee

public nature

purpose of the exercise

relevant provisions

senior divisional chief of that traditional area

such further order

such president of the council

sworn members of the traditional council

times material

togbe dakpo ii

togbe keh x of wegbe

ANTERKYI J.: Pursuant to leave granted on 5 November 1973 the applicants on 9 November filed this notice of motion for: “ an order of mandamus to issue to compel the President of the Gbi Traditional Council to submit the names of the applicants herein to be sworn in as members of the Gbi Traditional Council judicial committee and for such further order or orders as may seem fit to the court.”

After service of the notice on the respondent, Togbe Gabusu V, the President of the Gbi Traditional Council, he filed on 16 January 1974 his affidavit in reply, attaching thereto copies of three letters as exhibits A, B and C. In his affidavit the respondent contended that:

(1) He, in his capacity as the President of the Gbi Traditional Council, owed the applicants no duty to have them sworn as members of the judicial committee of the council.

(2) Save as to the first applicant, they were not members of the traditional council because “they have not been gazetted and therefore do not qualify to be i…

REPUBLIC V. PRESIDENT OF GBI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL; EX PARTE TOGBE KWASI BUAMI VII AND OTHERS

REPUBLIC
V.
PRESIDENT OF GBI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL; EX PARTE TOGBE KWASI BUAMI VII AND OTHERS