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AKOTO BAMFO J.S.C.
It is the prayer of the applicant herein George Kingsley Kwasi Ampong alias Odeneho Akrufa Krukoko II that the ruling of the High Court, Sekondi dated the 21st of December,2010 be brought up and quashed on the grounds set out in the supporting affidavit consisting of 19 paragraphs.
In brief, the events culminating in the present application are as follows;
On the 11th of June 2010; the Chieftaincy Tribunal of the Western Regional House of Chiefs gave a default Judgment in suit number 11/20/10. Nana Kwando Kyerefo III +5 Ors, the interested parties herein were the petitioners whereas George Kingsley Kwasi Ampong a. k. a. Odeneho Akrufa Krukoko II, the applicant herein was the respondent.
At the end of the proceedings, the chieftaincy Tribunal made this pronouncement;
1. “The respondent George K. Ampong is hereby declared as having been customarily destooled as Omanhene of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area with effect from 23rd April 2002.
2. The respondent is perpetually restrained from in any manner holding himself out as Omanhene of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area”
Subsequently a motion by the applicant to set aside the default judgment was on 27 October 2010 dismissed by the Chieftaincy Tribunal on grounds that the applicant could not be heard since he was in contempt of the orders of the Chieftaincy Tribunal made on the 11th of June 2010.
The applicant thereafter filed before the Sekondi High Court a motion for a judicial review in the nature of Certiorari to quash the ruling of the Chieftaincy Tribunal on the 27th of October 2010.The said application was dismissed by the High Court, Sekondi on 21 December 2010. The instant application seeks, as stated earlier, to have the ruling that dismissed the application for judicial review brought up before this court and quashed on the several grounds stated in both the affidavit and statement of case filed on behalf of the applicant.
A greater portion of the averments in the 19 paragraphed affidavit filed in support recounted the landmarks in the applicant’s journey through the Chieftaincy Tribunal and the Courts in his quest to “reclaim” as it were, the Stool of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area.
Before proceeding to consider the application on its merits; I wish to address an issue arising from both the affidavit filed in support of the application and the Statement of Case.
In paragraph 10 of the former appears the following:
“The grounds of my instant application for an order of cert