State proceedings—Certiorari—Application—Application for leave to apply for an
order of certiorari to quash a decision of a traditional council destooling applicant—
Leave granted and order for stay of proceedings issued—Interim orders on district
chief executive to re-open palace and restore stool property to applicant and for stay
of proceedings—Application by district chief executive to discharge interim order—
Whether application premature—Whether proper to serve interim orders on district
chief executive—High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A), Order 59, r. 6.
Chieftaincy—Chief—Destoolment—Executive instrument—Effect of—Executive
instrument issued by government to take cognisance of destoolment of chief by
traditional council—District chief executive empowered to carry out provisions of
executive instrument—Whether government and district chief executive acting as
agents of traditional council—Whether executive instrument affected by court order on
application for certiorari.
Chieftaincy—Chief—Recognition by government—Enstoolment and destoolment of
chief by government by issuing of executive instrument—Legal effect of such
recognition—Constitution, 1969—Chieftaincy Act, 1971 (Act 370)—Constitution,
1979.