AZU CRABBE C.J.
This is an appeal from the decision of the judicial committee of the National House of Chiefs dated 27 July 1976, affirming a ruling by the judicial committee of the Regional House of Chiefs, Volta Region, by which the appellants' plea of estoppel per rem judicatam was overruled in limine.
The facts of this case are simple and may be briefly stated.  On 11 January 1958, the Govenor-General of Ghana, acting under section 8 (1) of the State Councils (Southern Ghana and Southern Togoland) Ordinance,