He said, “on Tuesday 10th December 2019, the Research and Traditional Affairs Committee presented a report to the Standing Committee of the National House of Chiefs on Wednesday 11th December 2019 and to the full National House of Chiefs on the Thursday 12th December 2019”. According to him, nowhere in the said report, did they mention Gomoa Afransi in the Members of Central Region House of Chiefs to be gazetted as a paramount chief. Obrempong Nyanfoe Krampah, showed the list of members of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, as originally presented by the National House of Chiefs to the ParliamentarySelect Committee, through the Ministry of Chieftaincy, and vividly showed Assin Owirenkyi as the last Member of the Central Regional House of Chiefs. He presented documents to prove how fictitious some of the documents presented by the Chieftaincy Minister to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Special Legislation were as it contains Gomoa Afransi as the last member of the Regional House of Chiefs instead of Assin Owirenkyi. The action of the Chieftaincy Minister, the petitioner decried has the tendency to derail efforts that have been made in the chieftaincy institution, adding “this behavior of the Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs is a deliberate attempt to bring the Chieftaincy institution into disrupt”.

Source: GhanaWeb January 27, 2020 13:30 UTC