Kumasi, April 13, GNA - Heads of the four royal houses with legitimate title to the "Mposo and Ameyaw" stool of Effiduasi in the Ashanti Region, have declared that Mr David Osei Amankwaah is not a royal to the stool.

They maintain that he is not from the Duah Awere lineage as he claims, describing his claim as a lie. This was contained in a press statement issued by the four royal houses and signed by Nana Brogya Boateng for Ama Akyaa's House, Opanin Owusu (Adu Ameyaw House), Opanin Kofi Fosuhene of Kwaku Hyia House and Madam Akosua Mansa (Dua Awere).

They pointed out that Mr Amankwaah hails from the Ekuase Stool House and that he could not ascend the 'Mposo and Ameyaw' Stool. The royal heads contend that since the Mamponghene, Daasebre Osei Bonsu II, does not know who the true royals of Effiduasi are, custom demands that it should be the Effiduasi queenmother who should present to him a customarily enstooled Effiduasihene.

They appealed to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to stop the "outrageous crucifixion" of custom by the Mamponghene. This is the only way to ensure peace and tranquillity in the Effiduasi sub-traditional area, they added.

Daasebre Osei Bonsu on April four, presiding over a meeting of the Mampong Traditional Council, declared Mr Amankwaah the legitimate chief of Effiduasi and directed the kingmakers of the town to enstool him as such to enable him to swear the oath of allegiance to him.

Last Monday, Mr Amankwaa under the stool name of Nana Osei Worae II, swore the oath of allegiance to the Mamponghene at Asante-Mampong.