Oseadeeyo Dr. Frimpong Manso IV addressing the emergency meeting at his palace at Oda
The Omanhene of Akyem Kotoku Traditional Area, Oseadeeyo Dr. Frimpong Manso IV, has stressed the need for chiefs under his jurisdiction to be committed to the traditional council and refrain from all negative acts that could divide the council.
He also urged them to sustain the peace, unity and reconciliation that had been restored in the traditional area after a 25-yearlitigation that divided the people and hindered development of the area.
OseadeeyoFrimpongManso made the call at an emergency meeting held at the paramount palace with his wing chiefs and other traditional rulers at AkyemOda.
The meeting was occasioned by threats of the AdausenaChief, Nana BoniAbankro that the Adausena community had seceded from the AkyemKotoku Traditional Area to become an independent town.
According to the Omanhene, the Adausenahene and his sub-chiefs had held a news conference and announced that Adausena, Hweakwae, Ntronang and Agyenua where Newmont Akyem mine was mining gold had seceded from the AkyemKotoku Traditional Area and gone independent.
He said the three traditional leaders of the three communities however held a press conference the following day to refute the claim.
Throwing more light on the issue, OseadeeyoFrimpongManso said some time ago, the AkyemKotoku Traditional Council approached Newmont Akyem to use part of its endowment fund to reconstruct the paramount palace at Oda which had been destroyed by a rainstorm.
He said Newmont Akyem demanded a site plan from the Registrar of the AkyemKotoku Traditional Council to beembodied in its renewal of its agreement to be signed on April 4, 2024.
The Omanhene said the Adausenahene preempted the signing of the agreement with a press conference with the announcement that the four communities where Newmont Akyem was operating had seceded from the AkyemKotoku Traditional Area.
At last Sunday’s emergency meeting at Oda, the Chiefs of Ntronang and Hweakwae as well as the regent of Agyenua, Nana Asiedu Akora, NanaOsei AcyemangPrempehDwamenq II and Nana AgyeiBoadi, respectively, vehemently denied joining the Adausenahene to secede from the AkyemKotoku Traditional Area.
They emphasised that they were solidly behind the AkyemKotokuOmanhene and the traditional council, adding that the claim by the Adausenahene was a figment of his own imagination.
From Samuel Kyei-Boateng, Akyemoda