The kingmakers during the press conference
The kingmakers of Ngleshie Alata Jamestown in Accra have endorsed the newly installed Paramount Chief of the Traditional Area, Oblempong Wetse Kojo II, as the legitimate occupant of the stool.
Speaking during a press conference at the International Press Centre in Accra last Saturday through the Stool Father, Nii Sampah Kojo XI, Osiahene and head of the Kingmakers, they said the installment of the new chief should not be toyed with by anybody.
“We are the traditionally accredited kingmakers and hereby publicly declare that the only occupant of the stool legitimately nominated, elected, installed and enstooled in accordance with the Akan style stool of the paramountcy since 1st February, 2018, is Oblempong Wetse Kojo II known in private life as Dr. Prince William Asharku Bruce-Quaye,” they declared.
The Ngleshie Alata Jamestown paramount stool, they said, is not a commodity for auctioning, trading and sale as somebody is trying to do.
They accused a man (name withheld) of using land guards to create mischief and to disturb the traditional order.
The person they alluded to, they claimed, is speeding up a process to have someone who does not belong to any of the royal houses gazetted surreptitiously at the National House of Chiefs.
Such fraudulent activities and the use of land guards who use dangerous weapons to disturb the peace so that they would be able to compromise the traditional system is shameful and should not be allowed, they said through the stool father.
The kingmakers warned all ‘trouble makers’ to keep off the Jamestown paramount stool affairs.
Following the installation of the aforementioned chief in the Ngleshie Alata Jamestown segment of Accra, a media story suggested that another person had been installed which was what triggered the press conference.
The kingmakers said those who think that because certain compensation is going to be offered by the state in respect of Weija, hence their eagerness to install somebody who is unqualified, would fail in their orchestrations.
By A.R. Gomda