Ada Bedeku’s Chieftaincy Dispute Resolved …Amanatey Korle’s Family Is The Rightful Heir To The Throne

The four-member panel of the Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs has pronounced the Amanatey Korle family of Bedeku as the rightful heir to the throne.

The about seven-page unanimous decision of the Judicial Committee, read before both claimants – the Amanateys and Sogborjors – in open court, shot down the earlier judgement by a three-member adjudicating committee of the Ada Traditional Council, which ruled  that Nene Amadeku Ahuahey II from the Sogborjor Family  is the rightful heir to the Bedeku stool in East Ada.

Relying on the cross-examinations and evidence before it and making references to judgments of similar judicial cases in higher courts in Ghana, Magistrate Alexander Essien said the Ada Traditional Council erred in its 2020 ruling, especially when the Amanateys, since the Gold Coast era, have been choosing candidates for the Bedeku stool, without any protest from any quarters until 2020.

Further to that, the Judicial Committee, in its judgement, said until 2020 when the Sogborjors introduced Nene Amadeku Ahuahey II as the chief of Bedeku to the Ada Paramountcy, Nene Amanatey Korle III had been the chief of Bedeku since 1987, with evidence that the Sogborjors paid homage to him.

The Judicial Committee said given the evidence available to it and the outcome of the cross-examinations by both claimants, particularly with the defendants not disputing in cross-examination that the Amanateys have been choosing candidates for the Bedeku stool since the Gold Coast era, though they (defendants) later argued that the appellant’s role was only a herdsman, the Amanateys’ entitlement is undisputed.

Glad with the judgement by the Judicial Committee, Paa Joy Ekuamoah Boateng, the counsel for the appellants, told the Committee to waive cost for the sake of the peace at Bedeku and East Ada.

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