ABBAN J.: The application before the court is for the writ of certiorari directing the respondents, Tekperbiawe Divisional Council and the Ada Traditional Council to bring up to this court certain proceedings dated 20 April 1971 for the same to be quashed. The applicant further prays for an order prohibiting the two respondents from suspending him or declaring him destooled from his office as a divisional chief.
The events which led to this application are set out in the affidavits filed. The contents of these affidavits show that the applicant had been the recognised divisional chief of Tekperbiawe division of Big Ada, and in November 1970, some members or sections of the said divisional stool led by one Korle Gbettor intending to destool the applicant preferred destoolment charges against him. The charges were lodged with certain elders of the Tekperbiawe divisional stool, and this procedure, on the face of it, purported to comply with the Chieftaincy (Destoolment Proceedings) Regula…