Benso, the Capital of Wassa Fiase Traditional Area in the Western Region recently went gay as a new chief is enstooled
The enstoolment of the new chief, with the stool name Odeneho Akrofa Krukoko III, was necessitated by the sad and unexpected demise of the former chief, Odeneho Akrofa Krukoko II.
This sad news notwithstanding, the people undertook the enstoolment with pump and pageantry.
The new chief Odeneho Akrofa Krukoko III and her queen mother rode a Palanquin through the principal streets of Benso to formally announce the presence of a new chief to fill in the gap left behind by Odeneho Akrofa Krukoko II.
The occasion thus put into focus the need for a substantive chief, thus sending the celebrants frenzy as if nothing had happened to them earlier.
Prior to his demise, Odeneho Akrofa Krukoko II was saddled with numerous court cases, most of which he won at the Superior Courts in Accra – the High, Appeal and Supreme Courts.However, when these courts ordered the smaller courts in the Western Region to do the needful, it turned the other way round.
Our information has it that the Late Odeneho who had been wrongfully put behind bars for two weeks, by a Sekondi Circuit Court had had that sentence revoked because it was not done property.
The Queen Mother Riding in Palanquin
However, when the issue was reffered to the courts in the Region to revoke the sentence, it became another issue. The case thus want to and fro the Superior Courts to smaller courts till his sudden and unexpected demise.
Meanwhile, Council of the late Odeneho Krokoko, Israel Ackah, maintains that the court has accorded acceptance of the new chief for the continuation of the case in the Region. Council Ackah was quick to point out that the case pending before the Regional Courts are going on well, as the stool is sure of victory soonest.
The Benso stool denotes the Paramouncy of the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area, which has been bereft of a substantive paramount chief as a result of the protracted chieftaincy dispute there. Lawyer Ackah however, maintains that these will soon be a thing of the past.
He opined that, but for the unexpected demise of Odeneho Krukoko II, the case would have been disposed off by now. He subsequently appealed to the family and supporters of the new chief to remain clam as the pending cases get thrashed once and for all
By S.O Ankamah