[ 2013-07-30 ]

Akwamu has no paramount chief-Yaa Ansaa family
The Yaa Ansaa Royal family, a faction in a
protracted chieftaincy dispute in Akwamu in the
Eastern Region is angry over media reports which
sought to describe Kwabena Owiredu as the
paramount chief of Akwamu.

Ohene Oppong Akoto, a spokesperson of the family
stated at a press conference in Accra, on Monday,
they are the rightful heirs to the Black Stool and
would no longer countenance the lies and
misrepresentation being perpetrated by officials
of the Yaa Botwe family.

"We wish to state that the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family
are the true custodians and overlords of the
Akwamu Black Stool and are the indigenous
Akwamus," he stated, adding, "for over twenty one
years the Botwe family has been battling for a
prize that does not belong to them."

There is simmering tension between the two Royal
families over who is the rightful heir to the
throne.

The conflict was sent to a panel of eminent chiefs
who under an Alternative Dispute Resolution ruled
in favour of the Yaa Botwe family.

But the Yaa Ansaa Family has rejected the report
of the panel describing it as "full of
misrepresentation, lies and dishonesty."

They have filed a petition at the High Court for a
judicial review of the the decision.

But even before the court will arrive at a
decision, the family insists Kwabena Owiredu
cannot hold himself out as the paramount chief of
Akwamu.

Clad in black and red regalia and chanting war
songs, members of the Yaa Ansaa family told
journalists the report by the eminent chiefs was
procured through fraud, adding, the two
representatives who purported to have signed on
behalf of the Yaa Ansaa family did so without the
express authority of the family heads.

Source - Citifmonline

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