Friday, 3rd June, 20221

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DAILY ANALYST Friday, 3rd June, 2022
Call Asante Okore of Sekyikrom to order!
—IGP urged
Story Freeman Koryekpor
Awlesu, Back From
Sekyikrom, Eastern Region
The aggrieved destooled
Apagyahene of
Sekyikrom in the
Nsawam Adoagyir
Municipality of the
Eastern Region, Oheneba Nana
Asante Okore I, popularly known
as Toroo, has been accused of
hiring gun-wielding thugs who
are intended to cause harm to
the chiefs, queen-mothers and
elders at Sekyikrom Palace on
Sunday May 2022.
The thugs numbering about
eight (8), were believed to be
notorious land-guards hired
Founder and President
of the Worldwide
Miracle Outreach
and an International
Evangelist, Dr.
Lawrence Tetteh; and the
Spokesperson for the National
Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw
Shaibu, have disagreed with the
purported armed demonstration
that is being planned for 4th
June 2022 by some citizens of
the Republic.
The Religious Leaders made
their point on GTV’s Breakfast
Show on June 2, 2022.
According to Sheikh
Aremeyaw Shaibu, if they
intend to stage a demonstration
with ammunition, they
should stop because that could
create a state of instability
in Ghana, insurgency, and
also treasonable things in the
Nation.
“I want to tell any Politician,
I’m sure no Politician is
encouraging that across the
parties. Stay safe and keep on
the fight, meaning use wisdom.”
Citing an example, he
stated: “In Uganda, if you are
an opposition leader you are
beaten and put behind a pickup
truck.” He added that people
can express disagreement
with some assertions by the
President or Vice President
as well as the government in
power, but one should not take
by Asante Okore from different
communities to cause mayhem
at the chief of Sekyikrom palace
on that Sunday.
According to reports, they
stormed the palace when the
chief of the area, Nana Sakyi
Agyekwa V, Queen mother, Nana
Agyekwabea Akyeampomah
III and Sakyikrom Stool Father
(Gyaasehene), Nana Owusu
Aduomi aka Methuselah
including other chiefs, queenmothers,
elders and people of
Sakyikrom were celebrating
their annual Akwasidae Kesea
for the year 2022.
Nana Sakyi Agyekwa V,
who blew the lid over Asante
Okore Toroo’s action, stated
categorically that the thugs
it personally and turn it into
hatred where one would want
to create an atmosphere of
insurrection.
Dr. Lawrence Tetteh also
said: “sometimes young men
get so psyched up and make
statements without thinking
and I keep saying emotions
have no intent. We should be
able to make statements that
will not undermine the very
things we are doing. They are
demonstrating because they
stormed his palace on Sunday,
May 29, 2022, with machetes,
guns and other offensive
weapons.
He pointed out that the
thugs threatened to cause
mayhem over the destoolment
of their 'paymaster,' Asante
Okore since they could not
understand the reason he was
destooled by the Queen-mother
of Sakyikrom, Nana Agyakwabea
Acheampomaa III.
The chief indicated that
lucky however, eluded the thugs
as the Asafo group and the youth
of the area successfully arrested
eight of them and handed them
over to the Nsawam District
Police Command.
The police at the CID
Department of the Nsawam
District Police Command have
confirmed the arrest of the
thugs, saying that the case was
under police investigation.
Nana Sakyi Agyekwa V
pointed out that they seized
motorbikes, cutlasses and other
offensive weapons possessed by
the thugs during their arrest
The chief further recounted
the series of attempts by Asante
Okore to team up with the
destooled Abusuapanyin of
Sakyikrom, Mr. Amadi Yemo,
to attack their integrity and
reputations.
The Sakyikromhene
stated that he fully supported
the decision of Agyakwabea
are not happy with something,
but if you are going to do it in
violence, that will be a crash
which we don’t want in Ghana.
Let us try to do things within
the confinement of the law by
seeking police permission.”
He continued: “the whole
essence of being here is to
create an environment where
Muslims and Christians can live
in peace, where NPP and NDC
can live in peace as well.”
“I am happy that our young
Acheampomaa III to perform
rituals to destool Asante
Okore because the continuous
misconducts of him was creating
serious confusion, tension and
insecurity in the area.
Nana Sakyi Agyekwa V noted
that after he was installed Chief
of Sakyikrom, he personally
approached Asante Okore to
advise him to stop causing
trouble in the area.
But, according to him, Asante
Okore turned down all his pieces
of advice.
Nana Sakyi Agyekwa V
described Toronto as a notorious
trouble maker in Sakyikrom,
accusing him of using the name
of the Inspector General of
Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo
Dampare, to terrorise the chiefs,
queen-mothers, elders, and other
traditional office holders within
the Sakyikrom.
"Whenever there are
little misunderstandings
between Asante Okore and
other traditional office holders
sometime during our meetings,
you could see that Asante
Okore will just flip his mobile
phone and threaten that he
will call the IGP to report that
person to him, because IGP is
his friend. These have been the
continuous behaviours of Asante
Okore in Sakyikrom," Nana
Sakyi Agyekwa V disclosed to
journalists at a press conference
held at Sakyikrom on Monday,
We are against armed demo - Religious leaders
men and women are going on
demonstration, it is part of
democracy but violence is not
acceptable,” he concluded.
In a statement posted on
their Facebook page, the Ghana
Police Service on Wednesday,
June 1, 2022, said it had received
notification from the abovementioned
organizers of the
intended demonstration on
Sunday, May 29, 2022.
May 30, 2022.
The press conference was
held in a quick reaction to the
current widespread media
reports attributed to Asante
Okore to the effect that all
the households in Sakyikrom
did not have toilet facilities, a
development which compels the
indigenes to defecate in bushes
and at the public cemetery.
Mr. Asante Okore was
reported to have made these
derogatory comments on Onua
TV. He was also reported to
have made several dangerous
statements against the elders,
chiefs, queens and people of the
area which has dented the image
of Sakyikrom.
He was ostensibly exhibiting
these acts to destroy the
reputation of the newlyinstalled
Sakyikromhene but
evidence available showed
that Nana Sakyi Agyekwa
V demonstrates that he has
technical know how to work
closely with the traditional
authorities and leadership of
the Nsawam Adoagyir Municipal
Assembly.
However, the continuous
practice of Mr. Asante Okore to
go on Onu TV to peddle falsehood
against the Sakyikrom has
angered the traditional office
holders and youths in the area.
Addressing a crowded press
conference, Nana Sakyi Agyekwa
V issued a stern warning to Mr.
Asante Okore and his followers
including the destooled
Abusuapanyin of Sakyikrom,
Mr. Amadi Yemo to immediately
stop their continuous habit of
using the media to attack the
integrity and reputation of him
and his elders of the area, lest he
(Asante Okore) would face their
wrath.
According to him, their
attention has been drawn to the
series of the bad news attributed
to Asante Okore on Onua TV,
describing the contents of
these statements as complete
gross disrespect, useless and
misconception, and charged the
IGP to call Asante Okore and his
followers to order!
"If really it is true that what
Asante Okore has been always
saying that the IGP is his friend,
then l am using this platform to
appeal to the IGP to immediately
invite Asante Okore and his
followers to advise them to stop
their continuous behaviours,
because their actions and
inactions were retarding
development in Sakyikrom,"
Sakyikromhene appealed to the
IGP
Ḟlanked by the Queenmother
of Sakyikrom Nana
Agyakwabea Acheampomaa III,
Stool father of Sakyikrom, Nana
Sakyi Agyekwa V pointed out
that the troubles that Asante
Okore and his followers were
fomenting in the area were
threatening lives and security in
the area.
Against this back ground,
Nana Sakyi Agyekwa V
warned the youth not to allow
themselves to be used by
some self-seeking individuals
including Asante Okore and his
followers.