The Sunyani Traditional Council has refuted allegations of ‘selling the Sunyani queen mother stool to the highest bidder’ leveled against its President Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, describing claims as baseless and falsehood, without merit.

Some members of the Boahen Korkor Royal Family, the Mother-gate of the Sunyani Traditional Area has challenged the installation of Nana Akosua Dua Asor Brayie II, the new queen mother of Sunyani, describing her installation by Nana Nkrawiri as illegitimate.

The three royal gates namely, Akosuaa Dua, Kwantwiwaa and Nyantakyiwaa gates, family claimed “Nana Nkrawri II, unilaterally chose her as his queen, contrary to the demands of the customs and culture of the Nana Boahen Korkor Royal Family,”, and they had since activated legal process to nullify the installation.

But, addressing a news conference in Sunyani, Nana Kwaku Sabeng II, the Akwamuhene and the Acting President of the Traditional Council indicated “when the stool became vacant, six candidates including the current queen mother Nana Brayie II expressed their interest and per custom the candidates presented customary drinks to the Omanhene through respectable citizens of the region for his kind consideration to nominating them for the vacant stool''.

“The paramount chief accepted the drinks of all the candidates and informed the kingmakers accordingly, but the kingmakers. Upon receiving the customary drinks, Nana Nkrawiri II set up a committee to look into the background of the candidates to assess their suitability to enable him to exercise his prerogative right by nominating a suitable candidate for the approval and endorsement of the kingmakers”, Nana Sabeng indicated.

“The paramount chief exercised his prerogative in favour of Nana Brayie, and subsequently presented her to the kingmakers to seek their approval, but in the course of presenting Nana Brayie to the kingmakers all the interested parties and the kingmakers overwhelmingly accepted the nomination of Nana Brayie”, he explained.

Nana Sabeng said the new queen mother had since gone through the required customary rites, saying asserting that she therefore had the legitimate right to discharge her functions and duties as the queen mother of Sunyani.

“So, the stool has not been sold to the highest bidder as other royal families are claiming because Nana Brayie is from a royal family and she has all the credentials to occupy the stool”, he said.

Nana Sabeng therefore urged the good people of Sunyani support the new queen mothers and accorded her the necessary respect and dignity, saying “we are not going to sit unconcerned to allow some disgruntled elements to denigrate the highly respected paramount chief”.

Source: Ghana/Sompaonline.com/K.Peprah