According to a Video on X ( Twitter) ,Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has strongly responded to Oseadeayo Agyeman Badu II, regarding his recent statements questioning the Asantehene’s authority and ability to elevate chiefs to paramountcy status.
At an Asanteman Council meeting held at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II once again recounted the history of how an Asantehene elevated the Dormaa stool to the status of a paramount chief.
The Asantehene reiterated what he had previously stated, emphasizing the establishment of Asanteman in relation to the Golden Stool and the allegiance paid by all chiefs within the Asanteman Kingdom.
He explained that he felt compelled to offer this explanation again due to recent attempts to distort history.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II revealed that it was his uncle, the then-Asantehene, who elevated the status of the Dormaa stool to the level of a paramount chief.
He added that even before Agyeman Badu I, the uncle of the current Dormaahene, was enstooled as the Dormaa chief, he swore an oath of allegiance to the Asantehene.
The Asantehene’s response comes after the Dormaahene, in a recent video interview with Ghanaweb, raised issues with how the Asantehene elevates chiefs to paramountcy status and claimed that there was “no King in Ghana” as the 1992 Constitution does not make any reference to or provide for that.
Oseadeayo Agyeman Badu II argued that since Ghana is a state, there is no Kingdom within Ghana for the Asantehene to be referred to as a King.
He suggested that the mention and reference to the Asantehene in the Chieftaincy Act was improper and proposed a campaign to remove the Asantehene’s name from the Chieftaincy Act.
The Dormaahene has previously contested the extent of the Asantehene’s control over certain paramount chiefs whose jurisdictions fall within politically and governmentally demarcated areas outside of the Ashanti Region, such as in the Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Western, and Oti regions.
Oseadeayo Agyeman Badu II, who currently serves as the President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs, has questioned why the Asantehene should have control and elevate certain chiefs to paramountcy status, enabling them to become members of the Bono or Bono East Regional House of Chiefs.
He argues that increasing the number of chiefs at the Regional House of Chiefs contributes to rising government expenditure on the various regional houses of chiefs.
