Setting The Records Straight…Imposter Bortei Doku Not Nungua Chief

Mr. Frank Kofi Lewi—Chief of Staff (Nungua Stool)

Contrary to the newspaper report sponsored by Bortei Doku, who is laying claim to the Nungua Stool as Chief, Mr. Frank Lewi, the Chief of Staff of the Stool has issued a statement to debunk the false claim and described the aforementioned as a confused fraudulent imposter who wants to disrupt the peace of Nungua.

According to Mr. Lewi, Bortei had only joined a case which was pending against the Chief of Nungua Nii Odai Ayiku during the AFRC/PNDC era which led to the exile of Nii Odai. But by the time Ghana had returned back to civilian rule under the forth Republican dispensation Nii Odai return back home to fight the prohibition instrument E.I 18 which was issued on him during the revolution under the PNDC because he had not been destooled by tradition but by legal instrument which in itself doesn’t enstool or destool a Chief according to custom.

He (Odai Ayiku) took the matter to court and he was heard from the High Court to Appeals court through to the Supreme Court and at the Supreme Court the Judges said, the Issue of the Odai Ayiku prohibition instrument E.I 18 which was made by the PNDC government was backed by an indemnity clause which means whatever the PNDC or AFRC has done, said or authored no court should over turn and so far as the Supreme Court is part of the courts their hands were tired and therefore dismissed the case and so Bortei Doku claimed he had won the case.

He said, it is clearly a weak case of political persecution against the Chief at the time by the PNDC and that’s what Bortei want to take undue advantage of because come the 4^th republic, this prohibition instrument was cruelly concealed under indemnity clause.

Mr. Lewi indicated that Bortei Doku hails from Osokrono We from the Amafra quarter and they are only heirs to the Gbobu Wulomo of Nungua and they don’t come anywhere near the stool.

“If so, you have only won a case as a citizen of Nungua but you are not a royal. So if Nii Odai Ayiku was no more the Chief of Nungua, the stool cannot be vacant and for that reason the Mantse Klowe quarter and the Mantse Adjema We quarter came together to install his majesty Nii Odaifio Welentsi III from the Adjema We in 2010 and was therefore gazetted and registered as the new chief of Nungua”, he explained

“As we speak today Nii Welentsi III is a member of the Gt. Accra Regional House of Chiefs (GARHC) and a member of their Judicial Committee and a representative of GARHC to the National House of Chiefs (NHC) so he is the legitimate Nungua Mnatse. Bortei Doku went to court to challenge what he felt is not right of which anybody or any citizen has the right to do so but it doesn’t give him the right to the throne”, he emphasized.

“From 2010 till now he has taken Nii Odaofio III to Ga Traditional Council (GTC), he lost it, he took him to NHC, he lost it, he took him to Supreme Court he lost and still he is trying to create confusion in town. Bortei Doku is nobody, people say he is a scholar he is only a mathematician, he read mathematics at the university so he is only a mathematician and he has been worrying people all over the place, he hasn’t got any capacity or locus to rule as Nungua Mantse, he doesn’t hail from any of the three ruling Quarters of Nungua and nobody has ever rule as Mantse from Amafra, the Quarter where he belongs from time immemorial so people should treat that publication with all the contempt it deserves”, Mr. Lewi opined

He further cautioned that these are the bare facts and should any such publication emanate from Mr. Doku again, himself and the publisher will face the legal consequences thereof because the media has got to do background check before they tarnish the image of a GREAT CHIEF.