Suit against Dormaahene and eight others

A motion for an interim injunction has been filed against the Omanhene of Dormaa, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman-Badu and eight others to restrain them from taking over the stool property of Chiraa, until a pending succession dispute to the stool is resolved. The motion was filed at the Judicial Committee of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs.

Opanyin Kwame Asante of the Owusu Kwadwo Royal Household one of the two gates of Chiraa, is the applicant.

Also joined in the suit as defendants are Nana Adwoa Kusiwaa, Queenmother of Chiraa, Asamoah Adjei, claimant to the Chiraa stool, the Dormaa Traditional Council and its registrar.

Other defendants are Nana Kwadwo Kyeremeh, Nifahene, Nana Yaw Yeboah, Gyasehene and Nana Sawiri Ankobeahene, all of Chiraa. An affidavit supporting the motion said shortly after the Chiraa stool became vacant in 1998, the applicant, on behalf of his family, instituted an action against the respondents at the Judicial Committee of the Regional House of Chiefs.

This, it said, was after it became apparent that some of the respondents were making strenuous attempts to exclude members of the Owusu Kwadwo Royal Household from contesting the vacant Chiraa stool. The affidavit alleged that though the case is yet to be heard, the respondents particularly Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman-Badu and the Queenmother of Chiraa, had connived to give recognition to Mr. Adjei as the installed chief of Chiraa.

It said a letter dated December 8, allegedly written on the orders of the Paramount Chief of Dormaa, requesting for the handing over of the stool property of Chiraa to Mr. Adjei, is an indication that he has taken sides even before the determination of the case.

The affidavit prayed that the request for interim injunction be granted in order not to bring the administration of justice into disrepute and cause irreparable damage to the rights of the applicant.