By Dennis Peprah
Odomase Number One, (Bono), July 29, GNA – The Odomase Number One Traditional Council in the Bono Region has enstooled seven sub-chiefs, with a call on traditional authorities to shun unhealthy lifestyle that desecrate the image and dignity of the chieftaincy institution.
As the embodiment of the people, Odomfour Dr Kwasi Apraku III, the Paramount Chief of the Odomase Number One Traditional Area, who made the call, urged chiefs and queens to remain moderate in whatever they did, eschew alcoholism and live decent lives.
Addressing a colourful durbar of the chiefs and people of the area at Odomase Number One in the Sunyani West Municipality, Odomfour Apraku, a United States-based medical practitioner, said that chiefs and queens were role models in society.
He said: “We must endeavour to abstain from behaviours that desecrate and thereby expose our noble chieftaincy institution to public ridicule and disrepute,” adding that, “our social lives must be a source of inspiration for the younger generation.”
Odomfour Dr Apraku said as the custodian of land, culture and tradition, it behooved chiefs and queens to spearhead developmental agenda, highlighting their instrumental role towards accelerated national development.
He said society looked on and expected traditional leaders to lead the campaign against the growing trend of youth indiscipline, moral decadence and other social ills too.
Flanked by Nana Yaa Adanse Poduo II, the Paramount Queen Mother of the Odomase Number One Traditional Area and other royal relations, Odomfour Apraku took the sub-chiefs through traditional rites to seal their enstoolment.
They include Nana Baah Fosu Agyapong, the Nkonwasoahene; Nana Sarfo Adu Amankwaa, the Dabenhene; Nana Apentin Obiri Gyau II, the Twafohene; Nana Adu Boahen Pesew I, the Asokwahene and Nana Yeboah Tabiri Gyansah, the Dwantoahene.
The rest were Prof Nana Tabiri Abomini, the Tufuhene; Obouba Asiedu Amoah I, the Nantahene; and Oheneba Ahenkan Antwi Bawuah, the Akyempemhene, all sub-chiefs of the traditional area.
As demanded by the culture and tradition, the various royal families carried their respective sub-chiefs’ shoulder-high and paraded them through the principal streets of the town to confirm their acceptance amid dancing and drumming with traditional warriors firing musketry.
GNA
Edited by Benjamin Mensah