The Akyem Abuakwa Standing Committee has stripped the Etweresohene, Daasebre Ofosu Kwabi Ayebiahwe, of his traditional title “Daasebre”. He is henceforth to be known and called Ofosu Kwabi Ayebiahwe for rebelling against Okyeman.
Disclosing a declaration made at a meeting of the Akyem Abuakwa Standing Committee in the Ofori Panin Fie at Kyebi, Senior Counsel for Okyeman and a member of the Standing Committee, Lawyer Kwame Boateng, announced that the Standing Committee has stripped off all traditional courtesies due the Etweresohene due to his rebellion and treason action against Okyeman.
“As the chief of Etwereso has himself declared that he will never step foot in Kyebi again, the Council has today granted his wish in full measure. He is hereby denied any and all audience in the Ofori Panin Fie save to answer to any statutory body. No gate shall open to him. No stool shall be set for him. He has chosen the path of exile, and we shall not call him back,” the Standing Committee declaration stated.
He noted that the Etweresohene has on two occasions declined the committee’s invitation to answer to a viral video of him and other publications in which he made rebellious statements against the Okyenhene.
“WHEREAS the Standing Committee, in accordance with our time-honoured customs, formally extended an invitation to the chief of Etwereso to appear before us today—on a date he himself proposed—yet he uncustomarily and disrespectfully sent an excuse duty through the State Secretary, refusing to face the Okyenhene and the elders. Having heard the silence where his voice should have been, having weighed his words and his deeds against the oaths he swore upon the Ofori Stool, the Standing Committee of Okyeman hereby strips off his courtesies,” Lawyer Kwame Boateng stated.
The committee has further withdrawn his reporting right. He can no longer report on the matters of Etwereso to the Oman. No communication from him shall be received by the Okyenhene, the State Secretary, or any recognized traditional authority of Okyeman.
The Standing Committee has directed all towns, villages, and settlements that were previously under the division of Etwereso to, with immediate effect, cease to answer to him. They shall henceforth report directly to the Benkum Division (Begoro).
Akyeame and Nananom poured libation and sacrificed a sheep to traditionally solidify the declaration made by the Standing Committee.
“Let it be known throughout Okyeman, from Kyebi to the furthest farmstead, that rebellion shall find no shelter under our sacred umbrella. Okyenhene does not break his own house; but when a man raises his hand against the house, the house will close its doors against him.
We do not rejoice in this declaration. We mourn the fracture of kinship. But the custom is clear: he who denies the stool, loses the stool. He who rejects the state, is rejected by the state.
Let the drums speak the truth. Let the blood of the sacrifice know and speak the unbridled customs and let the ancestors bear witness,” Lawyer Kwame Boateng stated.
The Etweresohene has been in the news in the last few days for daring the Okyenhene on who becomes the Chief of Osenase and threatening to break away from Akyem Abuakwa. He dared the Okyenhene to make any attempts in installing a chief as Osenase, claiming that he is responsible for determining who becomes the chief of Osenase.
On Wednesday, the 12 chiefs within the Odau Group which he leads under the Benkum Division of Okyeman distanced themselves from his statements and pledged allegiance to the Okyenhene.
