Bekwaihene Is Dead

Bekwai (Ash) The death is reported of Nana Appiah Tutu Akate, Bekwaihene at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi last April 18. The Bekwai traditional council at a meeting today decided that burial and final funeral rites would be announced later. Nana Tutu Akate, 78, and managing director of KAC Timbers in Kumasi, was installed Bekwaihene in 1993 after the destoolment of Nana Osei Kwadwo the second after a protracted chieftaincy dispute, which did not end until December last year.