Otumfuo Revels Why Chiefs Pay Loyalty To Asanteman

Asantehene, Otumfour Osei Tutu II  has to speak on the recent historical narratives by the Dormaahene Oseadeyo Agyeman Badu II concerning the paying of loyalty to Asanteman and the Golden Stool by various chiefs in Bono East, Bono, and Ahafo Regions.

The Asantehene speaking at the first Asanteman Council meeting for 2022 in Kumasi reveals how chiefs located in different regions pay loyalty to Asanteman and the Golden Stool also gave hints of plans to elevate some chiefs and towns to the status of paramount chiefs in Bono East, Bono and Ahafo Regions.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II said the political regional separations for political administration by the central government do not necessarily mean that chiefs located in different regions will no longer pay loyalty to Asanteman and the Golden Stool, nor will Asanteman force any chief to pay allegiance.

He said his purpose was to give a renovation to those willing to work under the Asanteman umbrella and there were no plans to enslave anyone.

He said chiefs willing to continue to pay allegiance to Asanteman and gain the needed development and progress in their respective areas should not be discouraged by other chiefs who have no impact on them.

He said the then Dormaahene, Agyeman Badu for instance, paid allegiance to his uncle, the then Asantehene, Nana Kwame Kyeretwie before he became chief of Dormaa while he was still a teacher at the Government Boys School in Kumasi and that it was only recently that the Dormaahene, has decided not to pay allegiance to the Golden Stool and Asanteman.

But even with that, no one will attempt to force the Dormaahene to do so.

That, should, however, not mean that there should be an attempt to change the historical narrative.

And that, should not also mean that other chiefs in the Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo areas wanting to continue to pay loyalty to the Golden Stool and Asanteman should be disturbed in any way.

The Asantehene said that is why plans were ongoing to elevate such chiefs to the status of paramount chiefs.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II said he will not engage in unnecessary debates and that all towns in Bono, Bono East, and Ahafo regions deserving elevation will be granted that status. 

He has subsequently charged the Mamponghene and occupant of the Silver Stool, Daasebre Osei Bonsu II to spearhead the reconstitution of the various standing committees for Asanteman and consider the newly created regions and how towns and chiefs deserving elevation would be granted that status for representation at the various Regional House of Chiefs.