Accra Regional Yuroba Chief Installed

Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu congratulating the new chief yesterday

Hamza Iddris Peregrino-Brimah was last Friday installed as the Yoruba chief of the Greater Accra Region.

He succeeds the late Alhaji MB Peregrino-Brimah. The traditional position has remained vacant for some time until last Friday's installation under the authority and blessing of the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu.

Chief Hamza, a businessman in the company of family elders, yesterday paid a courtesy call on the National Chief Imam at his New Fadama residence.

The family expressed gratitude to the spiritual leader for his intervention in the family disagreement which created an avoidable vacuum. The chief imam had earlier appointed a family head, Yakubu Brimah, to hold the fort until a successor was found.

Information about the successor was relayed to the chief imam who subsequently gave his nod for the turbanning to be done last Friday.

The new chief is the grandson of Chief Brimah I, the first head of the Islamic community in the Gold Coast Colony in the early 1900s. He has vowed to do all that he can to ensure unity in the Brimah family which is one of the old families in Accra, with a history dating back to the late 1800s.

A grand ceremony to outdoor the new chief is being planned to hold after the Ramadan fast.