Nifahene have filed an application for the issuance of judicial review

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The Nchiraa Krontihene (left) and the Nifahene
The Nchiraa Krontihene (left) and the Nifahene

The chiefs of Nchiraa Traditional Area, near Wenchi in the Brong-Ahafo Region, have dragged the Wenchi and Regional Police Commanders, Chief State Attorney and prosecutor at the Wenchi District Court to a Sunyani High Court.

The Nchiraa Krontihene (left) and the Nifahene
The Nchiraa Krontihene (left) and the Nifahene

The Nchiraa chiefs, namely Nana Baffour Addo Kwabo II, the Paramount Chief; Nana Sakyiwaa Ampaabeng III, the Queenmother; Nana Kofi Agyei Ampofo Kumsa, Krontihene; Nana Yaw Tano Bosomfour and Nana Agyei Ampofo Atudurobesa, the Nifahene have filed an application for the issuance of judicial review in the form of certiorari and prohibition in the matter of the criminal trial that the Police initiated against them.

According to the chiefs, they do not understand why the police instituted the criminal case against them after celebrating their annual Yam Festival, describing the conduct of the police as not only ?unprofessional? but ?unethical.?

The aggrieved chiefs told?DAILY GUIDE?that they have been celebrating the festival peacefully over the years.

They said after the celebration of the festival in September, this year, they later received criminal sermons from the Wenchi police, through a third party that they celebrated the Yam Festival, without notifying the police.

The police hauled them to the Techiman Circuit Court located within the premises of the Techiman Palace.

According to them, owing to the experience of the Tuobodomhene, who was abducted by thugs at the said court at the palace, they applied to move the case to the Wenchi District Court.

The Nchiraa chiefs further said they have also filed a motion at the Sunyani High Court to quash the criminal case instituted against them by the police.

Their counsel, Nana Obiri Boahen, in a petition to the Chief State Attorney of the Attorney General?s Office in Sunyani on December 2, 2014 calling for the case docket for a study, argued that his clients never performed any function contrary to the requirements of the law as spelt under the Public Order Act 491/94.

?We are highly convinced that the purpose of arraigning our clients before the Techiman Circuit Court is just an attempt to show them where power lies.

?This contention is supported by the fact that whiles our clients maintain that the Nchiraa Stool owes allegiance to the Golden Stool, the other chieftaincy contractor?s claim that Nchiraa Stool owes allegiance to the Techiman Stool is not only preposterous, but false, malicious and misleading,? he stated.

He maintained that the Court of Appeal in the past determined the relationship between the Nchiraa Stool and the Golden Stool in?Boyie Vrs. Kwaku (2007-2008) GLRD 108.

Meanwhile, the court has set January 22, 2015 for hearing of the motion.

From Fred Tettey Alarti-Amoako, Sunyani

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