The Mampong High Court in the Ashanti Region has placed an interlocutory injunction on the enstoolment of NPP Member of Parliament for Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo Constituency, Adelaide Ntim, as the Aboafohemaa of Nsuta Traditional Area.
The injunction is a result of a writ filed by Samuel Gyimah challenging the nomination of Adelaide Ntim to occupy the Aboafohemaa Stool when she is not a member of the Agona family.
The plaintiff, in a writ before the Judicial Committee of the Nsuta Traditional Council, is seeking a declaration that per the customs and traditions of Nsuta Traditional Area, the Agona Aboafo Stool can only be occupied by qualified members of the Agona family as same is not a ceremonial stool.
He is also seeking a declaration that the queen mother of the area, Nana Siebura Aduwaa II, lacks the requisite capacity to nominate and enstool any person to occupy the Aboafohemaa Stool.
The plaintiff again wants a declaration that any purported nomination and enstoolment of anybody outside the Agona family by Nana Siebura Aduwaa II, is null and void.
He is also seeking a perpetual injunction restraining Nana Siebura Aduwaa II, her agents, assigns and privies from nominating or enstooling Adelaide Ntim as the Aboafohemaa of the Nsuta Traditional Area.
He is also asking for any further order or orders as the Judicial Committee may deem fit.
He subsequently filed an application for interlocutory injunction restraining the nomination and enstoolment of Adelaide Ntim as the Aboafohemaa of Nsuta Traditional Area.
The court, presided over by Justice George Appah Kwabeng, upon hearing counsel for the plaintiff ordered the “defendant, principal members of the Nsuta Traditional Council, their privies, agents, assigns, servants, workmen, and all others claiming through them be and hereby restrained from performing the ceremony to enstool the defendant as the Aboafohemaa of the Nsuta Traditional Area for a period of 10 days unless repeated on notice.”
BY Gibril Abdul Razak