In the past few days, Nii Kinka Okwei Dowuona VI, has been saturating the media with his claim of being the Osu Mantse. He is even reported to have asked the Hon Minister of chieftaincy and Culture for release of Osu Royalties to him, Nii Kinka Dowuona VI. This appeared in Daily Graphic of 17 July 2012 at page 49. As you may be aware there has always been a sitting Osu Mantse in the person of Nii Nortey Owuo III, who has occupied the Osu Stool since his installation on 29 December 1984. No occasion therefore arises for the installation of a second Chief for Osu. This new (supposed) Osu Mantse says his stool name is Dowuona VI. However, the Dowuona Saban Atsen Royal House has dissociated itself from his pretensions by a Statutory Declaration issued on 11 September 2009, followed later by a Suit filed in June 2011 at the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Dodowa. The Suit has been deliberately suppressed by public officials at the Regional House, thus delaying final dismissal of the claims by Kinka Dowuona. Obviously the National House of Chiefs and the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs have not dealt fairly with Nii Nortey Owuo III, the sitting, incumbent, undestooled Osu Mantse, because the Appeal Court judgment of 18 February 2005 and the confirming Supreme Court judgment of 17 May 2006, in favour of Nii Nortey Owuo III, have not been set aside or varied. Indeed on 2 June 2008, an Accra High Court declared the purported installation of Kinka Dowuona by Nii Ako Nortei the Mankralo of Osu on 4 May 2007 (at a Government bungalow on the Independence Avenue) to be in contempt of the said judgments of the two highest Courts in Ghana. The High Court judgment has also not been set aside or varied. These facts are known to the National House of Chiefs and the G/A Regional House of Chiefs, in spite of which they (the two Houses) promote the interest of Kinka Dowuona, for reasons best known to themselves. Nii Kinka Dowuona VI has gotten this far, an ‘extract’ from National Register issued by the National House of Chiefs and all, because of a series of falsified claims and by influence peddling, some of which have been in the public domain for a while. Indeed the ‘extract’ from the National Register of Chiefs which Kinka Dowuona flashes around as making him Osu Mantse, confirms that Nii Nortey Owuo III has never been destooled because the reason given for the ‘change in status’ of Nii Nortey Owuo III on that “extract” is ‘withdrawal of Government recognition’ which both the Appeal Court and Supreme Court judgments cited above have decided does not operate to destool a chief. Again, in ‘France v Golightly: (Consolidated) [1991] 1GLR(76-78) the Holding 2: states and I quote part of it: p.76] (2) Since it was not the recognition by the government which at the time made one a "chief" the withdrawal of the Gazette notification of the enstoolment alone would not be sufficient to "unmake" one a chief, provided he had been duly enstooled under customary law in accordance with the provisions of section 48 of the Chieftaincy Act, 1971 (Act 370). Accordingly, although the Gazette notification of Obuor II as the new chief of Sempe was subsequently withdrawn by the government, that did not stop him from customarily acting as a chief. Thus he would continue to perform his customary duties which included the granting of land and would only cease to perform any functions under Act 370 or any other statute. Accordingly, even though on the evidence in the absence of a substantive Sempe Mantse, the Mankralo of Sempe acted as the Sempe Mantse, so long as Obuor II remained the substantive Mantse, SPA as the Mankralo had no power to grant land to any person. Accordingly the grant to the first plaintiff was void”... [JSC Sophia Akuffo reading} Any payments from Osu stool royalties made to this pretender therefore, would violate decided cases by the Courts in Ghana and the existing Supreme Court judgment [17 May 2006] in favour of Nii Nortey Owuo III. Additionally, there are several cases currently running in the Courts, namely, Contempt, Fraud and an Injunction set for 23 July 2012. The Contempt case is for judgment on 31 July 2012. Chieftaincy issues do not bring about violence in our traditional areas. It is the failure of officialdom to be transparent and fair; influence peddling and sheer greed which brings about the chaos we read about, so often. Until the cases currently on-going in Court involving Kinka Dowuona are fully determined or he is able to provide evidence/proof that Nii Nortey Owuo III, the present occupant of the Osu Stool has been traditionally destooled, until then, no monies from Osu royalties should be paid to the pretender Osu Mantse. NII OKWEI NORTEY OSU STOOL SECRETARY 0264 315 631 ISSUED ON 19 JULY 2012 AT THE OFFICE OF NII NORTEY OWUO III OSU MANTSE, 2 KING STREET, OSU MANTSE PALACE, KINKAWE, OSU, ACCRA

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