The Mo Traditional Council under the leadership of Nana Kwaku Dankwa III, the Omanhene and President of the traditional area, has described as inaccurate reportage, about the recent clashes between the Mo and Wangara tribes in the Kintampo North Municipality.
The clarification comes after the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, summoned the Ministers of Defence and National Security, to appear before the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament over the violent clashes.
The Speaker’s directive is to enable the two Ministers provide information relating to actions being taken by the government to ensure peaceful coexistence between the two factions and forestall unity.
“As the first authorities to come to this house to brief the committee on Defense and Interior, this is an urgent matter that should be handled with dispatch. I think tomorrow should be okay for the two Ministers and their commanders to appear before the committee early tomorrow morning by 9 am to brief the committee. It is an urgent matter.
“The National Security Council through their regional office should immediately intervene because, the chieftaincy institution is one of the cornerstones of the peace and security of our country, and we hold that institution dearly.
“We will do everything to prevent that institution from falling into disarray,” he stated while responding to calls for a ceasefire by the MP of the area, Joseph Kwame Kuma.
Mo Traditional Council in a statement issued on Thursday, November 23, 2023, said, in view of the development, the Council saw it fit and exigent to duly clarify some issues not captured accurately in the aforementioned statement read in Parliament.
The Nananom, according to them firmly believe their statement is capable of ultimately helping and guiding decisions to be taken.
“Nana Fanyinama III is never the President and Paramount Chief of the Wangara Community in Ghana as alluded to by the Rt. Hon Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Alban Sumans Kingsford Bagbin, in Parliament yesterday. There are available records to erase that fallacy which is tantamount to the deceit of a Public Officer.
“Again, Nana Fanyinama III is not the Chief of Kintampo as he usually describes himself at public functions. He can best be described as the Zongo Chief in Kintampo,” portions of the statement read.
The statement pointed out that it has absolute confidence in both “the REGSEC and MUSEC to use dialogue in resolving this lingering impasse amicably.”
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Benkadi Kurubi festival was instituted by Nana Fanyinama III after the demise of the late Omanhene of MO Traditional Area Nnaa Kwaku Dimpo.
Nana Fanyinama III is never the President and Paramount Chief of the Wangara Community in Ghana as alluded to by the Rt. Hon Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament Alban Sumani Kingsford Bagbin in Parliament yesterday. There are available records to erase that fallacy which is tantamount to the deceit of a Public Officer.
Again, Nana Fanyinama III is not the Chief of Kintampo as he usually describes himself at public functions. He can best be described as the Zongo Chief in Kintampo.
The Mos are scattered around the world and are mostly in the Bono East and Savannah Regions, thus, North Mo. It is only a fraction of them who reside in Cote d’Ivoire just like those domiciling in Germany, Italy, the UK and the US etc.
The declaration by the President and Paramount Chief of the MO Traditional Council Nana Kwaku Dankwa III is an annual festival just that the stool was lying vacant for 23 years due to litigations and counter litigations. It is now that a new Omanhene has been duly and successfully gazetted which paved the way for the continuation of the festival.
Nana Fanyinama III has been paying homage to the Omanhene of MO by notifying him annually of his intentions to celebrate the Benkadi Kurubi festival with sheep, yams and other necessary traditional necessities but this particular year, he deliberately refused to do that because he has initiated court processes to claim ownership of MO Lands.
Nana Fanyinama III’s decision to legally claim ownership of MO Land is baséd on his argument that, somewhere in 1927, the Omanhene Nnaa Yaw Dagbi tasked him to administer 5 miles radius (on his behalf) standing by the old post office near the Kintampo Municipal Hospital, therefore he has the legal right to lay claims to the land.
Other Traditional Areas such as Ga, Sunyani etc., just to mention a few, impose a ban on noise making which the Law Courts, Banks among others accept in good faith and declare holidays within the stipulated time frame in the said Traditional Areas. Why then are the Mos treated differently? Is it because he is highly connected to an unseen hand in government?
Nana Fanyinama III serves two (2) Paramountcies, thus, MO and Nkoranza but he accords the Nkoranza Manhene with maximum respect and does the opposite to the MO Manhene, meanwhile, the Wangaras or the Zongo Community generally reside on MO Lands in Kintampo.
The MO Manhene has absolute confidence in both the REGSEC and MUSEC to use dialogue in resolving this lingering impasse amicably.
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