2 GOMOA FACTIONS SMOKE PEACE PIPE (PAGE 22)

THE parties embroiled in the dispute over the siting of the newly created Gomoa East District Assembly at Gomoa Afransi have agreed to smoke the peace pipe for the unity and development of the area.
This follows the intervention of a media team led by the Omanhene of the Abeadze Traditional Area, Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII.
At a meeting at Mankessim, Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi advised the two feuding factions from the Gomoa Akyempim Traditional Area and the Gomoa Ajumako Traditional Area to consider the convening of regular meetings in future to foster unity among Gomoas.
The Omanhen of Gomoa Akyempim, Obirifo Ahunako Ahor Ankobea II, gave his full backing to the peaceful settlement of the impasse for peace and unity to prevail in the two traditional areas as it used to be some years back.
The Central Regional Minister, Nana Ato Arthur, denied that he never sacked some people from the Akyempim who called on him at his office in Cape Coast.
He also explained that he was neither involved in the naming of the district assembly nor the siting of its capital at Gomoa Afransi, adding that all what he did was to act upon a letter from the Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment’s Legislative Instrument (1883), which gave the legal backing to the new assembly.
The District Chief Executive for Gomoa West, Ms Joyce Aidoo, called for decorum and tolerance to guide the new district assembly for a smooth and prosperous administration.
The Odikro of Afransi, Nana Ogyedom Obrenu Atta II, denied any knowledge about the siting of the district capital until it was announced.
He stated that he only counted himself as a lucky chief, stressing that any controversy should be settled.
Other members of the committee were Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, the Oguaamanhen; Nana Yamful Obrenu VIII, the Twafohene; Nana Nketsia Afful, the Abontendomhen; and Nana Antwi Bosiako, the Ankobeahen, all of the Abeadze Traditional Area.
It would be recalled that following a suit filed by Obirifo Ahor Ankobea at a court in Accra against the Minister of Local Government, the Central Regional Minister and three others, against the inauguration of the assembly, the chief called on the court to commit the defendants for contempt for going ahead to inaugurate the assembly.