Chief slaps Chief

The chief of Boankra, Nana Bonsi, who allegedly slapped another in the face, has been summoned before a Kumasi Circuit Tribunal, charged with assault.

He has, pleaded not guilty to the charge and is on a ?5 million bail to appear before the tribunal on August 20 this year.

The chief, Nana Antwi Asiedu Bonsi, 58, is alleged to have slapped the face of Nana Kwabena Dwuma II, chief of Boankra in the Ejisu Traditional area of the Ashanti Region.

After the slap, he (Nana Bonsi) chased him (Nana Kwabena Dwuma II) to the Ejisu Police Station, where he again allegedly gave him another ‘dirty slap’ in the face, while he was lodging a complaint.

The Krontihene faces two counts of assault but has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is on bail to appear on August 20, 2001.

During cross-examination, the chief of Boankra stunned the packed court as he narrated how Nana Bonsi slapped him in the presence of his wife and at the police station while he was lodging a complaint.

The act, he said, made him to bleed profusely from the nostrils until he was rushed for treatment at the Ejisu Government Hospital.

According to the Prosecution on February 16, 2001, a public announcement was made at Ejisu that Nana Bonsi has been destooled by the Ejisu Traditional Council.

Nana Bonsi is said to have suspected the chief of Boankra, Nana Dwuma, to be the brain behind his destoolment and therefore hurried to his house at Boankra to hunt for him. He saw Nana Dwuma and his wife in their home and, without provocation, slapped him.