Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI
The Otublohum Mantse Nii Dodoo Nsaki has taken issues with Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, the Osu Mantse over a correspondence he sent to him regarding a search conducted at the Registry of the National House of Chiefs.
He said in a letter dated 8th May 2018 that “I am overwhelmed by your lecture to me on the Chieftaincy Act, 2008 (Act759), especially against the backdrop that I have been the Otublohum Mantse for over 30 years and the acting President of the Ga Traditional Council for over three years.”
He did not take any lecture from his Osu counterpart, claiming in the correspondence that the Chieftaincy Act is in his bosom.
Continuing, he said that “although you are the President of the Regional House of Chiefs you have failed and or neglected to invite members to a meeting to enable you know at first-hand the issues confronting their respective traditional areas.
He added “you cannot therefore respectfully make reference to a simple meeting organised by you in any capacity whatsoever.”
He also said that even as President of the Regional House of chiefs he still had others contesting him as traditional heads.
The Otublohum Mantse asked what prompted the search in the first place and its consequential response.
“But I am aware that the appropriate forum or person with the requisite capacity to address me on this matter (Re: Status Of Ga Mantse) is the Registrar of the National House of Chiefs and not you who is purportedly a colleague with same status or less.”
The reaction of the Otublohum Mantse was triggered by a correspondence his Osu counterpart, who as President of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs wrote to him regarding the endorsement of the National House of Chiefs of Nii Adama Latse II.
In the same correspondence the Osu Mantse informed the Otublohum Mantse that by the development, he ceases to be the President of the Ga Traditional Council.
By A.R. Gomda