Four gates within the Royal Anona Busua Stool Family have denounced one Kwabena Antwi, a former parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) in the Kwesimintsim Constituency, as the enstooled Overlord of Ahanta.
Last Sunday, a few people carried and paraded Kwabena Antwi in a palanquin on the streets of Busua as the enstooled chief of Ahanta to replace the late Overlord, Otumfour Baidoo Bonso XV.
But the four gates have come out in a press statement to denounce Kwabena Antwi as the enstooled overlord.
In a statement signed by Ebusuapayin Kwesi Bediako, Safohene Nana Ahamanze, Omankrado Nana Azuro Prah, Ebusuapayin Nana Anwanzi, and Ebusuapayin Kofi Ackon, the four asked the public to disregard the enstoolment, because nothing of that sort had happened.
The four described the purported enstoolment that happened last Sunday as fake, a sham and desecration of the rich customs and traditions of the people of Ahanta.
“As [the] Royal Anona Family of Busua, which is clothed with power, right, and capacity to select, elect, and nominate a Chief for the Stool, we are by this press statement setting the record straight, that no one has been selected and nominated for the Stool, moreover enstooled.”
As a result, the public, by this press statement, is advised to disregard the purported enstoolment of Kwabena Antwi as Chief of Ahanta.
The statement also extended an invitation to the police to cause the immediate arrest of Kwabena Antwi and all others, including chiefs who took part in the purported enstoolment.
To the royal family, the purported enstoolment could have disrupted the peace of Ahanta, a reason they were calling on the police to effect the arrest of those involved in attempting to disturb the peace of Ahanta.
The statement added, however, that it was a fact that the Overlord of Ahanta, Otumfour Baidoo Bonsoe XV, was unwell and, as such, seeking medication.
“So, for another to attempt to replace him (Baidoo Bonsoe XV) by way of [a] sham enstoolment, when the former knows that the latter was seeking medication, is traditionally and customarily untenable.”
The statement warned that any attempt by the Regional House of Chiefs (WRHC) and the National House of Chiefs (NHC) to gazette Kwabena Antwi as Overlord of Ahanta may not bode well for the peace of Ahanta, and the region as a whole.
For this reason, if the Regional House of Chiefs and NHC have no hand in the shambolic, sham and fake enstoolment of Kwabena Antwi, they should do the right thing by distancing themselves from him.
The statement added that, by custom, the Busua Stool did not enstooled on a Sunday, but rather Monday.
“By enstooling [the] Busua Stool on Sunday is an utter desecration of custom and tradition, and this is what Kwabena Antwi and his cohorts like Etsin Kofi, Ngodzi Essoun have done.”
This, the statement added, should even tell any right thinking individual that these characters had no good intention for Ahanta.
