Ghanaian Times

In a front page story, the Ghanaian Times reports that a reception organised on Monday in the house of Nana Nyarko Boateng II, the newly-installed Obohene and the Right Wing chief of Kwahu Traditional Area in the Eastern Region, to climax is installation, ended in confusion.

The guests were held captive by a group opposed to the chief, and the police had to intervene to secure their release.

The paper says not along after his installation, Nana Boateng decided to entertain his people and other invited guests who took part in the programme. The Times says at the reception, they were met by a hostile group believed to be supporters of Osabarima Yeboah Afari Boagyan, Aduanamanhene of the traditional area.

The group was said to have held Nana Boateng?s supporters captive in the house where the reception took place.

Quoting sources at Obo, the Times says the guests travelled from Abene, the seat of the Kwahu paramountcy, to Obo for the reception after the installation of 58-year-old Nana Boateng, and at the outskirts of Obo, the guests found the road blocked and being manned by the opposing group.

A member of the group is said to have given a warning shot, but the guests managed to dismantle the barrier and passed through in a convoy to Nana Boateng?s house.