Yilo Krobo installs new Konor but court order stops coronation
In spite of the Koforidua High Court order restraining the Nuer Family of Somanya from nominating and installing Romeo Tetteh Kofi as the Konor of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Area, the family has installed Tetteh as the new paramount chief. His coronation yesterday however could not come off due to court order.
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The bailiff of the Somanya Court, Mr Richard Ansah, who was sent with an order from the Koforidua High Court to the Nuer Family to restrain it from the installation, could not do so.
After unsuccessful attempts to serve the Nuer Family with the order, Mr Ansah returned with the order.
According to the bailiff, a bailiff from the Koforidua High Court had, since April 27, tried several times to serve the family but to no avail, hence the order given to him to serve the Nuer Family.
Failed attempts.
There was tension in Somanya during the installation of the new chief, as the youth of the Ologo Family hooted at the Nuer Family and cast insinuations at them and other people who had thronged the palace to witness the event.
In anticipation of the possibility of violence, the Akosombo Police Command deployed a number of policemen to maintain law and order in the town.
When the Ologo Family realised that the police were not ready to stop the installation ceremony, the Deputy Head of the family, Mr Divine Tetteh Ologo, registered their displeasure to the Akosombo Divisional Commander of the Police Service, DSP Edward Ohene Bosompem.
According to the divisional commander, the police had nothing to do with the installation process at the palace. Rather, theirs was to prevent the Nuer Family from introducing the paramount chief outside the palace.
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Background
Following the death of Nene Ologo in 2009, the Nuer Gate was challenged by the Akrobettoe and the Ologo gates that it was not its turn to accede to the stool.
The case was filed with the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs, chaired by its President, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, who is also the Okyenhene.
The committee struck out the case following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) adopted by the three gates which, among other issues, outlined the succession plan to the Yilo Krobo Paramountcy in the order of the Nuer, Akrobettoe and Ologo clans.
New chief
About three weeks ago, a 37-year-old logistics manager of the Ministry of Health in Accra, Mr Romeo Tetteh Kofi, was installed as the new Paramount Chief, with the stool name Nene Nuer Anobaah Sasraku II.
His coronation was slated for April 30, 2015, but before the ceremony could be held, the Koforidua High Court restrained the Nuer Family from nominating and installing Tetteh as the Konor of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Area.
The order followed the granting of an ex-parte motion to a member of the Ologo Family, which sought a declaration that any nomination, election or installation of Tetteh or any member of the Nuer Family as the Konor of Yilo Krobo was void and of no legal effect.