The title ‘Okyehene’ does not exist in the books of Ghana’s Chieftaincy Ministry, Dr Nana Agyenim Boateng, President of the Concerned Youth of Ashanti (CYA), has said.
According to him, while the Asante King rules over a Kingdom, the Chieftaincy Ministry only recognises the title, Akyem Abuakwamanhene, for the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area.
Dr Agyenim Boateng told Class FM on Friday, 4 May 2018 that: “They always want to compare the paramount chief of Akyem Abuakwa to the Asante Kingdom, which is impossible. When you go into chieftaincy – I’ve worked with the Chieftaincy Ministry before – we don’t even have anything called ‘Okyehene’ but we have Akyem Abuakwamanhene.”
He explained that the Akyems have three clans. “We have Akyem Kotoku which is a paramount, we have Akyem Abuakwa, it is a paramount; and Akyem Bosome and they are all paramountcies”, but, he added: “The Asante King [rules over] a kingdom.”
His comments were a reply to Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, nephew to President Nana Akufo-Addo, who said he is not stupid enough to undermine Asante monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as being alleged by the revered traditional leader.
At the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi recently, the furious Asante monarch is said to have specifically named Mr Otchere-Darko and the president’s Executive Secretary, Nana Asante Bediatuo, as plotting to undermine him.
Ashanti Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi) and other leading figures of the NPP, including Acting General Secretary John Boadu; Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah, as well as the Regional Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation, Kwabena Senkyire, went to the Manyhia Palace on Wednesday, 2 May 2018 for a different purpose but got confronted by the enraged monarch who revealed to them that certain people close to the seat of government were making disparaging comments about him and also pitching him against the people of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area – native town of President Nana Akufo-Addo, Mr Otchere-Darko and Nana Asante Bediatuo.
This prompted an instant groveling apology by the four leading figures of the NPP, who fell on their knees before the traditional leader.
Responding to the allegation against him, Mr Otchere-Darko wrote on his Facebook page: “Am I so stupid that I would work against my own interest and turn one-half of me against the other half by inciting my mother’s people against my father’s people; that I would bite the very hand that feeds us politically? Perplexing”.
But Dr Agyenim Boateng believes Mr Otchere-Darko’s response was disrespectful.
“How can you respond in such a way to His Majesty? Let’s be sincere; courtesy demands, if such a great king has spoken and mentioned your name, is this the way to respond to him, that you are not stupid? I mean we must look further,” he stated.
He continued: “Gabby must come down; such arrogance cannot take him anywhere. This is not the way to respond when a father speaks to you. Asante Bediatuo has kept quiet but Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko is becoming unbecoming.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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THAT RIFT RAFF CALLING HIMSELF DR. AGYENIM BOATENG IS A POLITICAL ACROBAT AND SYCHOPHANT. HE DOESE'NT DESERVE TO DISCUSSED...HE IS A POLITICAL NUISANCE...AFTER FLIRTING WITH NDC AND FAILED MISERABLY, HIS COURTING AFFECTION FROM MANHYIA..PAINTING ONE OF THE POLITICAL FLIRTATION GIFTS IN THE COLOURS OF SYMPATHY OF THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE OF THE DEPARTED ASANTE HEMAA, HE FIRST MADE THAT SYCHOPHANTIC MISCHIEVOUS HISTORICAL INACCURASY ON NHYIRA 104.5 FM, TOP HIGH KUMASI. AND GUESS WHO HOSTED HIM? ANOTHER ALWAYS ILL PREPAID MORNING SHOW HOST AND HIS PRODUCER DIE IN THE WOOL NDC SYMPATHISERS WHO ARE THEMSELVES BANKRUPT OF ISSUES, PRETENT TO BE DOING GREAT WHEN INFACT THEY ARE ONLY NOICE MAKERS ON THE AIRWAVES OF KUMASI. NO WONDER, THE CALIBRE OF PEOPLE HE HOST ARE OF THE SO CALLED DR. NANA AGYENIM BOATENGS...HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO EXPOSE THE IGNORANCE OF PEOPLE HE HOST TO ISSUES. CACOPHONOUS NOICE HAS BECOME THE ORDER OF THE DAY ON NHYIRA FM MORNING SHOW. YET THEY TOUTS THEMSELVES AS THE BEST MORNING SHOW IN KUMASI. IF ANY ONE CARES JUST LISTEN TO HIM FOR A WEEK. IF ITS NOT NPP, ITS NDC..THAT IS ALL..SO WHY WOULD THEY NO GO FOR SOMEBODY LIKE AGYENIM BOATENG KNOWING VERY WELL THE DISGUST HE COURTS FROM LEVEL HEADED AND DISCERNING LISTENERS IN THE METROPOLIS..NO WONDER PRODUCTION NOW THRIVES ON SENSATIONALLY HYPED AND EXAGERATED HEADLINES FOR DISCUSSION...WHILE 95% OF GHANAIAN MORNING SHOW HOST LISTEN TO NEWS FILE FOR THE MOST AUTHORITATIVE ANALYSES, KOFI ASANTE & CO WILL GO TO SLEEP AND COME BACK ON MONDAY TO MAKE A MISERABLE MESS OF THEMSELVES AND LIE TO LISTENERS PRETENDING THEY ARE CHUNNING OUT THE TRUTH...LISTEN TO HIM SINCE THE NPP ASSUMED GOVERNMENT....''NPP WHAT IS HAPPENING, NPP THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD' NPP CONSTITUENCY AND REGIONAL ELECTINGS, MATTERS ARISING' etc etc. Such is his level of clandestine underground activities unknown to the Regional Npp secretariat.
ANYBODY RELYING ON HIS TRIBAL LINKAGE TO ASCERTAIN HIS HUMAN DIGNITY IS NOT RIGHT. SUCH A PERSON HAS NO HONOUR OF PROTECT. YES, WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT ASANTEHENE OR ANY CHIEF TO BUILD ROADS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. WE SHOULD KNOW BY COMMON SENSE THAT IT IS THE DUTY OF GOVERNANCE TO DO SO. GOVERNMENT MANAGE TAXES AND ECONOMY AND SHOULD DEVELOP THE NATION PROPORTIONATE TO THE DEMOGRAPHICS CONSIDERATION OF THE POPULATION. THE PROBLEMS OF OUR CHIEFS, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, AND POLITICIANS IS THAT THEY INTERFERE UNNECESSARY SO MUCH IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS. ABOUT A MONTH AGO EVERYBODY IN GHANA WAS TALKING ABOUT DOUBLE SALARY SCANDAL OF SOME MPS. TODAY WE DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT AGAIN. SOME OF THE MPS INVOLVED BEGAN TO RUN TO SOME RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND THEY MIGHT AS WELL RAN TO SOME CHIEFS TO INTERVENE, SUCH DEVELOPMENT CAN GENERATE UNCALLED FOR TENSION, JUST LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING BETWEEN JUBILEE HOUSE AND MANHYIA. IN SOME OTHER NATIONS SUCH SCANDAL IS INVESTIGATED AND PUSUED TO ITS ULTIMATE CONCLUSION. ANY CRIME FOUND IS PUNISHED ACCORDINGLY AS DEMANDED BY LAW. I HOPE THIS UNEXPECTED BROUHAHA OF JUBILEE HOUSE AND MANHYIA HAS NOTHING TO WITH THE DOUBLE SALARY SCANDAL WHICH APPEAR TO DIE PREMATURELY. I WISH THIS IS NOT THE CASE. WE CANNOT RUN A COUNTRY TO SUCCESS IF THE RULE OF LAW IS NOT ALLOWED TO WORK. WE CAN NEVER BE CONSISTENT TO GROW IF WE USE DIFFERENT MEASUREMENT TO JUDGE CRIMES IN THE COUNTRY. THE LAW MUS HAVE NO RESPECT OF PERSONS. MANY WADE INTO THIS BROUHAHA WITHOUT HAVING ANY IDEA ABOUT I. THEY BETTER KEEP QUIET.
This is all Dr Nkrumah's Fault. He failed to dismantle these chieftancy 'things'which are haunting us today,nobody would be comparing himself to God today.Some of thought Rawlings what going to accomplish what Dr Nkrumah should have done but he too became corrupted by his own selfish ambitions
***barred word*** people here should spare us their ignorance. how can anyone call a king with over 10 paramountcy under him a paramount chief? read the constitution and you keep quiet. the constitution say 'there chiefs, paramount chiefs and the ASANTEHENE.why would the constitution say that?
Who is this asr3h01e called Agyenim Boateng and why is he trying so hard to generate so much ill-feeling between the Akyems and the Ashantis?Most Ghanaians respect our chiefs and that includes the Asantehene,However our chiefs are not God,that we must prostrate in front of.Gabby was not responding or speaking directly to the Asantehene and therefore this cacophonous n0nsens3 from this creep Agyenim Boateng is just meant to create bad blood between the Ashantis and the Akyems. It is dangerous and someone should act quickly to stop that lout.
Join the UNC, the party for you 2X Broad base, the best, UNC all the way Convention, eye clean............... These words are true today as they were yesteryears No wonder Mahama said these people will never be satisfied even if you pave their roads with GOLD!!!
Even where this Dr Agyei Boateng has his interview is questionable, why would you choose Seidu Abongo's radio stain classfm for that?it means the ndc is behind all these. The man Abongo has duped the nation with Opuni and they are in court being prosecuted and if found guilty jailed and all they could help the nation is to bring confusion to cover up the wicked damage done this nation, did some people have interest in the l00000ting of the state why this controversy? I don't understand this ! Where is this also coming from and why this time? Do we have to give the devil work to do when there is none? Silence is golden, Ghana can never develop with some kind set of greed and selfishness and what would profit a man if you gain everything under the sun and loses your soul. There is no book in the world that says politics is where man must go to survive, but politics is where one go to show what you can do for your country not what the country can do for you so somebody tell ndc they must work with their hands for it is worth it doing that to ste*ling and l000*ting from the state to get rich.I wished the Ashanti monarch hadn't talked for this so called Dr Agyenim Boateng to hurriedly set up a group to run with it for his own interest because impossibility can never be possible unless the world is reconstructed again. I'm surprised when I hear some Ghanaians who speak like during ndc era Ghana was good so will promote thi*ving in governance rather than good governance, where this man made his interview is owned by Seidu Abongo a known ndc man so, what would Agyeman Boateng gain by this? Kojo Bonsu and co.can't dictate to the nation, they can't enjoy at the expense of the poor and needy and all their evil machinations will come to not. Ndc will never come back to power somebody mark it somewhere.
Listening to their so-called leader, they are doing POLITICS against Nana Addo and NPP
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, ALL THOSE FIGHTING FOR WHO AND WHO IS A KING, WE HAVE ONLY ONE LING HIS NAME IS CHRIST THE YASHUA. FORGET ABOUT THOSE FIGHTING BECAUSE ONE DAY THEY WILL BE NO MORE.
there is only one king.His name IS JESUS