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THE REPUBLIC
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HIGH COURT ACCRA EX-PARTE THE ADA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL

(2016) JELR 109757 (SC)

Supreme Court 17 Feb 2016 Ghana
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- The Kabiawetsu clan of Big Ada nominated and installed Nomo Jonathan Dzabeku Abodoadzi as Divisional Chief (Wetsoyi), but the Ada Traditional Council, after initially acknowledging this, instead presented Haruna Ocansey as Wetsoyi. - The

Case Details

Suit Number:J5/48/2015
Judges:ATUGUBA, JSC (PRESIDING) ADINYIRA (MRS), JSC YEBOAH, JSC BENIN, JSC AKAMBA, JSC
Counsel:JOSEPH NICOLAS NKRUMAH ESQ. FOR THE APPLICANT. J. A. LARKAI INTERESTED PARTY.

R U L I N G 

ATUGUBA, JSC:  

FACTS 

The Applicant moves this court “for an order of certiorari directed at the  High Court, Accra to bring forth and to be quashed the Ruling of the Court  presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Barbara Ward Acquah (Mrs.), on the  ground that the High Court erred in exercising jurisdiction over the Ada  Traditional Council, it not being its judicial committee. 

The crux of this matter is that the Kabiawetsu clan of Big Ada, allegedly  nominated and installed Nomo Jonathan Dzabeku Abodoadzi as the  Divisional Chief (Wetsoyi) in succession to the last deceased Wetsoyi of the  said clan. The applicant, the Ada Traditional Council was notified of this  installation and a date was fixed for the presentation of the new Wetsoyi to  it, but the event was postponed. However on the 7th day of January 2013,  the applicant rather had one Haruna Ocansey presented to it as the new  Wetsoyi. 

Aggrieved, the Interested Party successfully applied and quashed the  decision of …

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