The youth slaughtering a sheep to mark destoolment of Nana Brenyah
Nana Amoateng Brenyah, Chief of Barekese in the Atwima Nwabiagya South District, has, gone into hiding after the youth in the community had chased him out of the palace when he was preparing to observe the Akwasidae festivity.
The police have since guarded the palace, currently locked up by the angry protestors.
The swift intervention of the local police, with backing from a reinforcement team from neighbouring Kumasi, prevented the irate youth from physically attacking the Chief.
He managed to get away under heavy police protection, but not without being pelted with water and stones, and has since not returned to the community.
Nana Brenyah has been accused of stifling development in the community and engaging thugs to terrorise land owners.
The police guarding the Barekese palace
They accused the embattled Chief of sidelining some five heads of families and declining to enstool sub-chiefs to replace those who had passed away before his enstoolment, thus ensuring a one man rule in the town.
According to them, the Chief had no Council of Elders, and the only stool elder he confers with was one Nana Berko, the Adontenhene, after he had sidelined heads of the Assinie, Asokore, Asona, Bretuo families and the Asiakwahene.
Nana Brenyah was also said to be selling lands without restraint, irrespective of whether the parcel of land was already acquired or belonged to a family.
The youth said that they had ample evidence that the Chief was not a royal, and queried how a Chief would rent residential accommodation in his own town.
They have threatened to prevent him from returning to his rented home in the town.
The angry youth have also slaughtered a sheep at the frontage of the palace to signify the purported destoolment of the Chief.
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