RE: "Nungua Installs A Dzaasetse"

rejoinder to the article "Nungua Installs A Dzaasetse", Ghanaweb, Tuesday, August 4, 2010.

We all came from somewhere and, clearly, being a descendant of Adjiri from Akwamu should not pose any impediment to putting Enoch Odia in his proper place in Nungua’s ruling clan. Further, as a person from Adjin We, Enoch Odai is entitled to be a Dzaasetse if so installed, but such installation can lawful only if made by Adjin We and only when an A Adjin We person wields the throne as the Nungua Mantse.

The situation in Nungua is very heart-breaking. The installation of Enoch as the Dzaasetse of Nungua by Odehekpakpa is deadly wrong because it grossly distorts Nungua’s traditional and constitutional systems. Traditionally and constitutionally, the chief of Nungua is installed from only one of three rotating Houses of the Nungua Royal Family-- the Kwei We, the Ayiku We, and the Adjin We. Correspondingly, the Dzaasetse is always installed from the ruling House. Odehe Kpakpa is from Ayiku We. Thus, his installation of an Adjin We person as the Dzaasetse when Adjin We is not the ruling house distorts Nungua's history and violates all the norms of Nungua's traditional and constitutional system. Frankly, it causes one to wonder whether Odehekpakpa is not resorting to a political ploy to get him support for something he is not entitled to. In the 1920, Nii Mantse Tawiah of Kwei We, for the first time, made a similar mistake when he gave away the Mankralo’s position, hitherto held by the Royal Family, to the Amanfas. This 1920s mistake has contributed immensely to the destabilization of Nungua not only because the Royal Family has permanently lost the Mankralo’s position, but also because that position, though much lower and less significant than the Chief’s, has emboldened some Amanfa people to aim at wresting the throne from the Sanshi people. Odehe Kpakpa should know that his installing an Adjin We as the Dzaasetse when Adjin We is not the ruling House is a gross violation of Nungua's traditional norms and can create an irreversible distortion of its history and constitutional system].