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TOGBE AGBEKPO ASSEM IV FIA OF MAFI & ANOR
V.
DANIEL KWASI BLEPONNY & 2 ORS

(2023) JELR 111616 (SC)

Supreme Court 8 Nov 2023 Ghana
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- The case involves a dispute over the Bometsule Stool of Gborta, which the Petitioners claim is the only Stool of Mafi State and Mafi Installation Stool. - The Petitioners filed a Writ before the Judicial Committee of the National House of

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Suit Number:CHIEFTAINCY APPEAL NO. J2/01/2022
Judges:OWUSU (MS.) JSC (PRESIDING) LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS.) JSC PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC ASIEDU JSC KOOMSON JSC
Counsel:CHARLES AGBANU ESQ. FOR THE PETITIONERS/RESPONDENTS/APPELLANTS. O. K. OSAFO-BUABENG ESQ. FOR THE RESPONDENTS/APPLICANTS/RESPONDENTS.

  JUDGMENT

INTRODUCTION:

On 22nd May, 2007, the Petitioners in this case filed a Writ before the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chiefs to invoke its original jurisdiction. In the said Writ the Petitioners claim the following reliefs:

  1. A Declaration that the Bometsule Stool of Gborta is the only Stool of Mafi State and Mafi Installation Stool.   
  2. That the 1st Petitioner is the Fia of Mafi, he hailing from the appropriate family has been customarily nominated, elected, enstooled and or installed on the ancient and sacred Bometsule Stool of Mafi.  
  3. That the Anlo State Council judgment of 1950 was made without jurisdiction and actuated by malice, prejudice and vitiated for its gross infraction of the cardinal principles of natural justice.
  4. An Order directing the 3rd Respondent to forward the 1st Petitioner’s enstoolment document to the National House of Chiefs, Kumasi for registration in the National Register of Chiefs and in the Gazette.
  5. Injunction restraining the 3rd Respondent fro…

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