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Members of the Akute Azu royal family, one of the lineages to the Manya Krobo paramount stool has called for the reconstitution of the Odumase Council.

This would be in compliance with the ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs on May 24, 1994 on its ruling on the Manya Krobo Paramount Stool case.

The Akute Azu family maintained that a fair and transparent reconstitution of the Odumase Council would help resolve many of the chieftaincy problems threatening their unity.

The call was made at a press briefing organized by the Akute Azu royal family at Odumase-Krobo in the Eastern Region.

The statement of the family was read by Mr Amenyo Torkornoo, a member of the Akute Azu family surrounded by elders of the family.

The Odumase Council is responsible for the nomination and enstoolment of the paramount chief of Manya Krobo Traditional Area among other responsibilities.

Mr Torkornoo explained that, the 1994 ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs also maintained that all males in the patrilineal lineage of Nene Odonkor Azu, the founder of the Manya Krobo paramouncy and his brothers, had the right to mount the Manya Krobo paramount stool.

The Akute Azu family explained that after Nene Odonkor Azu, all the paramount chiefs that had mounted the Manya Krobo paramount stool were from the lineage of only one of the 12 wives of Nene Odonkor Azu.

The members of the Akute Azu royal family called for calm and unity and the use of dialogue in the resolution of all differences.

Mr Gustav Mate-Azu, an elder of the Akute Azu royal family said Manya Krobo Traditional Area need the efforts and resources of all its citizens for development of the area and it was not in the interest of anybody to engage in violence to resolve their differences and called for calm.