THE SUPREME COURT RULING AND WHY THE MAMPRUSIS CAN NOT GO TO COURT SIMPLIFIED
The MAMPRUSIS led by one Adam Zangbego went to court in 2003 to challenge the constitutionality of PNDC LAW 75.But before the case could take it's full course, the MAMPRUSIS for reasons best known to them decided to seek permission to withdraw the application before the court but asking the court that they may come back with the same case back to the court.The court said, you are free to withdraw your case but never come back to this court and any other court to talk about PNDC LAW 75.
WHAT IS PNDC LAW 75?
Remember that, when the NLC government came to power, they forcefully removed some chiefs from their offices including the Bawku Naaba Asigri Abugrago.So the PNDC government under Rawlings also came and passed PNDC LAW 75.This is a restoration of chieftaincy status law.This law was to restore back the chieftaincy status of all those chiefs who were forcefully removed from their offices.Yes the status of Abugrago as a chief was restored.The MAMPRUSIS simply attempted to tell the court that, the law that restored the status of Abugrago back to him is unconstitutional.But they abandoned that and run away.
Remember that, the court after warning them never to come back talking about PNDC LAW 75 also punished the MAMPRUSIS for wasting it's time.The MAMPRUSIS were also punished for wasting the time of Naaba Asigri Abugrago.They were made to pay 1000 ghana cedis for their misbehavior.
HAS PNDC LAW 75 BEEN REPEALED??
The answer is a big NO.There is no repeal of PNDC LAW 75
A law that has spent its force is usually taken out of the law books because it has finished accomplishing what it was meant to do. This happens in a revision. This is what ignorant people who don’t know are misunderstanding as a repeal. PNDC LAW 75 was basically to restore the status of chiefs Including Abugrago which was fully accomplished.In constitutional jurisprudence, once the law has accomplished it's mission, it's normally taken out of the law books.This is called a revision and not a reapeal.STOP THE IGNORANCE.
THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RULING
(1) The court has band the MAMPRUSIS from ever coming to it to talk about the law that restored the status of Abugrago back to him.They are finished.They can never go to court to talk about it.They did not challenge PNDC LAW 75 and can never challenge PNDC LAW 75.In any case, the law has accomplished it's mission.
(2) PNDC LAW 75 was never repealed and the lies must end
(3) Now listen,as if the court was angry with the MAMPRUSIS, after asking them never to come back to court talking about PNDC LAW 75,it has also band them from coming to court to talk about articles 270 and 277 of the 1992 constitution.
For the benefits of the doubt, article 270 says" The institution of chieftaincy together with it's traditional council as established by customary law and usage is hereby guaranteed.In any way detracts or derogates from the honor and dignity of the institution".
What does that mean, simply affirming the institution of chieftaincy and asking the MAMPRUSIS never to come back talking about chieftaincy issues.Never to come back talking about chieftaincy institution or any semblance of that.
(4). Article 277 says" In this chapter unless the context otherwise requires" Chief" means a person who hails from the appropriate family and lineage, has been validly nominated, elected or selected and enstoled,enskined or installed as a chief or queen mother in accordance with the relevant customary law and usage".
What does it mean for the court to tell the MAMPRUSIS that, don't ever come back here to talk about this law or talk about who is a chief and who is not a chief.This is a simple matter of the court telling the MAMPRUSIS that,all these laws talking about chieftaincy matters, you are band or forbidden from coming to this court to talk about them.
So you see clearly that, the MAMPRUSIS have been treated as outcasts or persona non grata by the supreme court.
WHAT IS THIS TALK ABOUT WHERE IS THE SUPREME COURT RULING???
Funny people, you were expecting the supreme court to come to you and borrow your English language and write" Abugrago is the legitimate Bawku Naaba" before you understand that you have gotten to the end of the road??
Stop asking where is the ruling?? The ruling is the few sentence document that you have been reading over and over again in your private rooms.That few sentence document is what gave you the technical knock out.Its what has stopped you from being chiefs for about 40 years now.Its what has compelled you to starve yourself in order to buy weapons.Its what is still putting you in a dilemma whether to try going to court or not.Its what has caused you several innocent lives.Indeed it's what you still can not believe.
CONCLUSION
Bawku is kusasi and kusasi is Bawku.You MAMPRUSIS could not believe the president who is a lawyer by training on this issue.You could not believe the interior minister who is a LAWYER by training on this issue.Not even the chieftaincy minister who is a lawyer on this issue.But shockingly and all of a sudden, the entire of mamprugu including the few settlers in Bawku now found a law god,Adam Bona who is not a lawyer by training,who said nothing new except to rehash all that you MAMPRUSIS have been saying.Your messiah has landed and then emboldens you in your ignorance and refusal.
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