Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene’s attention has been drawn to the purported destoolment of Nana Boakye Ansah II and the subsequent purported enstoolment of Prof. Joseph Amoako Tuffour (Nana Amoako Tuffour I) as the new chief of Abadwam.
The alleged infraction, at the instance of Oguahyia Oduro Panin Birikorang, Edubiasehene and Nana Akua Dwum II, Obaapanin of New Edubiase, comes in the face of an invocation of the Great Oath of Otumfuo (Ntamkese).
Nana Boakye Ansah II, chief of Abadwam, since 1994, has challenged his purported destoolment by invoking Otumfuo’s Great Oath in the presence of two emissaries from the Manhyia Palace.
In spite of the pendency of the oath (Otumfuo’s Ntamkese), the Edubiasehene caused one Prof. Amoako Tuffour to be enstooled as the chief of Abadwam, contrary to Asante custom and usage.
As a result, Nana Boakye Ansah has petitioned the Asantehene to intervene and prevent attempts to undermine Asante tradition.
In a petition to the Asantehene, Nana Boakye Ansah, the embittered chief of Abadwam complained that the New Edubiasehene and his cohorts brought false charges of sale of stool lands and destoolment charges against him before the Adansi Traditional Council.
He said the Adansi Traditional Council adjudicated the case in absentia, after which he was destooled and a new chief enstooled, at the time Otumfuo’s Great Oath had been invoked to restrain the perpetrators of infraction and disregard for Otumfuo’s authority.
According to Nana Boakye Ansah, he has since 1999 not been furnished with proceedings of the Adansi Traditional Council, which upheld his purported destoolment in order for him to react to them.
As a result, he took legal action in court, but while the case was pending, the Obaapanin of New Edubiase reportedly delegated the Abusuapanin and Akyeamehene of New Edubiase to the Krontihene and Gyasehene of Abadwam to take over the Abadwam palace.
Nana Boakye Ansah narrated that in line with custom, he proceeded to the Palace and invoked Otumfuo’s Ntamkese, challenging his purported destoolment and attempts to enstool a new chief to occupy the Akora Frimpong stool of Abadwam.
According to the aggrieved chief of Abadwam, the invocation of the Otumfuo’s Great Oath was reported to Otumfuo’s Akyeamehene, Nana Nsuase Poku for the necessary action.
He said this action forestalled all attempts by the Krontihene and Gyasehene of Abadwam to orchestrate his destoolment until in November 2021, Oguahyia Oduro Panin Birikorang, Edubiasehene; Nana Akua Dwum II, Obaapanin of New Edubiase, the Abusuapanin and Akyeamehene of New Edubiase, much aware of the pendency of Otumfuo’s Great Oath disregarded it and proceeded to organise a purported enstoolment ceremony of one Prof. Joseph Amoako Tuffour, at the New Edubiase Palace, in violation of custom and Otumfuo’s oath.
With the backing of armed police, they proceeded to Abadwam and took over the Abadwam Palace and stool properties therein, after breaking into the palace and ransacking and desecrating the stool room without restraint.
It is in view of these developments that Nana Boakye Ansah has petitioned Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for his royal intervention to safeguard undermining Asante custom and usages and avert the injustice being meted out to him in grave disrespect and gross insubordination of Otumfuo’s authority.
Professor Joseph Amoako Tuffour, 70, swore an oath to the Oguahyia Oduro Panin Birikorang Edubiasehene under the stool name Nana Amoako Tuffour I, at “Dwaberem” at the Oguahyia Palace in New Edubiase.
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