THE REPUBLIC v. NII AYINSAH SASRAKU, NII AKWEI BONSU, NII KOJO ASHAMFLO @ BISHOP NII AFLAH SACKEY AND NII APPIAH

On the 14th April, 2022, the applicant herein Nii Okpe V, describing himself as the

Dzasetse of Ngleshie Alata Stool James Town, filed the instant application under

Order 50 rule 1 of the C.I 47 praying for an order to commit the Respondents into

prison for their ‘contumacious conduct by reason of obstructing the roadways and

highways of public justice by usurping the powers of the Court’. The applicant

supported his application with a 13 paragraph affidavit in support with Exhibits and

annexures. To put the application into perspective, I hereby reproduce some salient

paragraphs of the affidavit in support for their full effects. They are paragraphs 4, 7 to

9 as follows:

“4. That I have been told by my Counsel and I believe same to be true that per

the ruling in the case of THE REPUBLIC VRS JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE

GA TRADITIONAL COUNCIL EXPARTE; NII KOJO ABABIO V, SUIT NUMBER

MISC/28/85, His Lordship A.K.B Ampiah J.A indicated that it is only persons from

the Okpe Family of James Town Ngleshie Alata can be Dzase or kingmakers who can

enstool the paramount chief of Ngleshie Alata. Attached is a copy of the

said judgment marked as Exhibit ‘A’.

7. That on the 21st day of March 2022, respectively the 1st, 2nd and 3rd

respondents posted on the internet a press conference they organized in

Accra and stated that plans are far advanced to outdoor a new Dzasetse for

Ngleshie Alata in the name of NII KOJO ASHAMFLO III known in real life as

Bishop Dr. Nii Aflah Sackey, the 4th Respondent herein. Attached is a copy of the said

video of the press conference and it is marked as Exhibit ‘B’.

8. That on the 1st day of February 2022, the 4th Respondent in confirming the

statements made in the press conference mentioned supra, wrote a letter in which

he claimed to be the Ngleshie Alata Dzasetse though he hails from the Adanse

We which is different from the Okpe Family who are entitled to this position of

Dzasetse of Ngleshie Alata Stool. Attached is a copy of the letter written by the 4th

Respondent calling himself Dzasetse of Ngleshie Alata contrary to the

judgment of the court and this is marked as Exhibit ‘C’

9. The 4th Respondent in wilful disrespect to the judgment of a competent Court

or jurisdiction has always attempted to widen the Dzase to include others and or

strangers who are not members of the Dzase and not kingmakers and although

he does not hail from the Okpe family has been describing himself as a member

of an accredite