By Maxwell Awumah
Anlo-Afiadenyigba (V/R), Nov. 5, GNA – School of Medical Sciences lecturer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, has been enstooled as Togbi Ekpe-Subo V of Anlo-Afiadenyigba in the Keta Municipality.
He is known as Dr Francis Jojo Damalie, in private life.
The mantle of traditional leadership of the Ekpe-Subo Royal Stool fell on the renowned Fertility Specialist after a thorough search and scrutiny for the successor of the late Togbi Ekpe-Subo IV of Dome-Kpornuga, Anlo-Afiadenyigba.
The traditional rites of enstoolment begun during the funeral of the late Togbi Ekpe-Subo IV on October 19, during, which the new Chief was taken into seclusion together with Mr Danwise Kwashi Ameshimeku, Coordinator of Sponsorship at Plan International, and Madam Kafui Yevu, a caterer, as his Agbotadua (an assistant to the Chief) and Queen, respectively.
A coronation ceremony is yet to be officially announced to outdoor Togbi Ekpe-Subo V, his Agbotadua Amesimeku, and Queen, Mama Yeshike II, will be held with traditional pump and pageantry at Anlo-Afidenyigba on a date to be announced by the Ekpe-Subo Royal family.
Togbi Ekpe-Subo is also a Senior Specialist Obstetrician and Gynecologist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and a fertility consultant at Hallmark Medicals, both in Kumasi. He attained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He is a Fellow of both the West African College of Surgeons and Ghana College of Surgeons. He also holds a Postgraduate Master’s Degree in Reproductive Medicine from the University of New South Wales School of Women’s and Children’s Health, Australia.
Togbi Ekpe-Subo, the new chief of Dome-Kpornuga, Anlo-Afiadenyigba is also a philanthropist and leads as co-President the Volta Health Network Plus (VHN+), a dynamic non-profit voluntary organization of health professionals in Ghana and abroad which undertakes multi-specialist medical outreaches in various Districts and Municipalities in the Volta region and other parts of Ghana.
He is married with four children.
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