By Dennis Peprah
Odomase, (B/R), Nov. 20, GNA – Odomfour Dr Kwasi Apraku III, the Paramount Chief of the Odomase Number One Traditional Area in the Sunyani West Municipality has advised chiefs and queens to spearhead development of local communities.
He said the role of traditional authorities towards facilitating accelerated national development remained unparalleled, saying it was the responsibility of chiefs and queens to ensure that the emerging development needs of their subjects and the localities were tackled.
Odomfour Apraku gave the advice when he performed traditional rites and customs to seal the enstoolment of seven sub-chiefs of the Odomase Number One Traditional Council at Odomase, the municipal capital.
The new sub-chiefs were Nana Yaw Nyame, the Baamuhene, Nana Kofi Nyame, the Awerempimhene and Nana Amankwatia Safradu, the Akyempimhene, Nana Baffour Gyan, the Dompimhene, Barima Yaw Twum, the Nkosoahene and Okofo Kwasi Antepim, the Kronkrohene of the Traditional Area.
With their enstoolment, Odomfour Apraku III told the sub-chiefs that they were expected to lead the people, self-initiate and undertake development in their respective communities, saying that would attract the support of the government and NGOs and help build the communities.
Nana Yaa Adanse Poduo II, the Paramount Queen-mother of the Area, also urged the sub-chiefs to actively engage the sub-queens in decision making and development processes.
She said she was highly optimistic that the chiefs and queens in the area would serve the people in humility and diligence to help bring the development of the Odomase Number Traditional Area to the next level.
As tradition demands, the royal families which nominated the sub-chiefs later carried them shoulder-high and paraded them through the principal street of the Odomase Township.
GNA