Samuel Boama Danso
The Eastern Regional House of Chiefs has served notice it will forcefully eject Samuel Boama Danso from the Kwahu Nkwatia Palace for carrying himself as the chief of the town when a challenge against his enstoolment is yet to be determined.
The said operation, according to the Registrar, Richmond Peseu, will be carried out on Thursday, April 29, 2021, under the supervision of the Nkawkaw Divisional Police Command.
The Registrar, in his letter to the police, explained that the planned ejection of the disgruntled chief follows a ruling delivered by the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs which ordered him (the Registrar) to take over the palace and all properties belonging to the Nkwatia Stool.
“I write this letter pursuant to the ruling delivered by the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs on Nkwatia Stool Affairs which specifically ordered the Registrar of the aforementioned House to take procession of Nkwatia stool properties and deliver same after resolution of the dispute.”
According to the letter, “The Registry of this House has therefore decided to carry out the said Order on Thursday, April 29, 2021.’’
Samuel Boama Danso, according to the House, was illegally installed as chief of Nkwatia in October 2020 with a stool name Nana Boama Ayiripe II, by the Krontihene of Nkwatia – Nana Odei Tutu Ababio and section of stool elders and kingmakers under heavy military and police protection.
But his installation was later challenged by the queen mother of the town, Nana Agyeiwaa Kodie II and nine others at the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs, and the council found reason in her application.
The petition was initially dismissed by the Judicial Committee of Kwahu Traditional Council on October 16, 2020 before the petitioners appealed at the Regional House of Chiefs.
They subsequently applied for an interlocutory injunction on November 20, 2020 against the respondent from carrying himself as chief of Nkwatia, which has been granted in a ruling delivered on March 24, 2021, by the Judicial committee pending the final determination of the substantive case.
“In considering the application, therefore, Nananom was granted the application restraining the respondents from dealing with or doing anything at the chief’s palace at Nkwatia in any manner or whatsoever pending final determination of this appeal.
“However, to preserve the stool property affected by this dispute and so that the Palace will be fully secured, Nananom hereby orders the Registrar of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs to take possession of the Palace until the final determination of the Appeal,” the letter read.
A protracted chieftaincy dispute rendered the Kwahu-Nkwatia Stool vacant for three years after the death of Nana Atuobi Yiadom IV in 2016, who reigned for 60 years.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Koforidua