Newly installed paramount chief of the Osudoku Traditional Area of the Greater Accra Region has received firm assurances of support from his divisional chiefs to ensure that he achieves his obligations to the people of Osudoku.

The chiefs representing the seven divisions swore the oath of allegiance before Nene Kweku-Otiti Animle VII, assuring him of their unwavering support to ensure that the area receives the best of development and progress during his reign.

Nene Tetteh Sabaah Atakplai IV, Divisional Chief of Klekpa speaking on behalf of the chiefs made the assurance during the introduction of the newly installed paramount chief to the divisional chiefs at Osudoku.

The ceremony formed part of the traditional, customary and legal demand accompanying the installation process.

Explaining the significance of the event, Nene Amanor Aklebeto I, Secretary to the Paramount Stool and Spokesperson for the Osudoku Paramountcy outlined the proper procedures that legitimate persons go through to ensure that they are rightfully enstooled to occupy the stool. “There are processes that a clan or kingmakers need to go through before they can enstool or make somebody a chief.

As far as Odudoku Traditional Area is concerned, when a paramount chief is enstooled, the paramount stool father has to introduce him to the traditional ruler in the traditional area,” he noted.

Underscoring the essence of the event, he asserted: “It is one of the important processes that somebody must go through to become a chief as far as Osudoku is concerned.”

Addressing concerns over an earlier installation of a paramount chief by a different clan, Nene Aklebeto clarified that only one clan has the right to enstool the chief.

“As far as the paramountcy of Osudoku Traditional Area is concerned, there’s only one clan, in other words one division which customarily, traditionally, historically and legally has the right to enstool a paramount chief,” he said strongly emphasizing that no individual can call himself a chief unless he goes through the right procedures.

Nene Kweku-Otiti Animle VII’s installation paves the way for the Osudoku Traditional Council to vet his chieftaincy declaration forms and the subsequent submission of his forms to the Greater Accra Regional Traditional Council for his gazette and registration as a duly installed chief.

Calling on the people to support the new chief to succeed, the secretary said the void created by the demise of the late king retarded development in the area and urged the people of Osudoku both home and abroad to lend their support to the new chief to ensure that he achieves his goal for the Osudoku community.

“The paramount chief of a traditional area has a very big role to play as far as the unity, as far as the development of the traditional area is concerned and in fact when we had no paramount chief…there were a whole lot of challenges. It has retarded our development,” he stated.

Nene Kweku-Otiti Animle VII succeeds his predecessor, Nene Aadegbor Ngmongmowuyaa Kwesi Animle VI.