It is only a matter of time for the ticking time-bomb which has been hanging on the chiefs and people of Suaman Dadieso traditional area for the past thirteen years to explode.

Three deaths have been registered on other radial. The final onslaught is this month and the stage is set for a titanic clash. Tension has reached its and the Western Regional Minister, Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, confirmed to the Chronicle that an SOS message had been sent to the National Security Council (NSC) and that the situation at Dadieso, a cocoa farming community, is very volatile.

Commercial activities in the area are gradually coming to a halt and, at the last count, about 80 coca farmers were reported to have a fled their villages while others are still making time to develop their land because of the tension.

The District and Regional Security councils together with the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) and Regional Police Command have been kept busy alert in the area since February last year.

Between August and September this year, President John Agyekum Kufour, the Speaker of Parliament, Peter Ala Adjetey, and the Inspector General of police (IGP), Nana Nkansa Nsiah, have received four strongly-worded petitions, which implicated the regional minister for complicating issues.

But the R.M., Hon. Joesph Aidoo, who stands indicated by the Suaman Dadieso Youth Association, elders and citizens of Suaman traditional area and the Suaman Dadieso Citizens Association (Tema) told Chronicle that he was on his way to sending a letter to the Privileges Committee of Parliament to submit himself for probing and also to look into the violated tension in the area.

Currently, about 20 people from the village, including a newly installed paramount chief, Odeneho Brentum IV, a retired police commissioner, are in their third month of detention at the Sekondi Prisons charges of conspiracy to murder and murder.

It begun thirteen years ago, when the paramount chief of the area, Nana Kwasi Atta Brembi IV, an information minister during the Acheampong regime, was allegedly destooled on charges of incest. In 1989, Nana Brembi IV went into self-imposed exile in Sekondi after being charged by the elders in the village for having an affair with his niece, Akua Nyame, who was then his cook.

According to the petition to the IGP, fired by the Suaman Dadieso Youth Association, “The chief went into self-imposed exile when he committed incest by having amorous association with his niece which is a taboo not only in the traditional area but also in Ghana as a whole”.

Madam Aakua Nyame herself is said to have made a confession before a local shrine after a long sickness, which was attributed to the alleged sexual relations she had with her uncle. Between 1989 and 2002 the self-exiled chief has visited Dadieso on two occasions and on each occasion there was bloodshed, which resulted in the deaths.

The elders and some sections of the youth of the town have sworn to protest his presence in the village. According to the elders and citizens of Suaman Dadieso area, during his fist visit in February 1994, “the people revolted and in the process an innocent JSS pupil was shot and killed. Nothing was heard from the police.

Whiles in exile, and facing destoolment charges which was being handled by the Western Regional House of Chiefs, Nana Brembi IV surprisingly was given an appointment to work at the house of the chief in his capacity as paramount chiefs of Suaman Dadieso.

Meanwhile, it was the same house of chiefs, headed by Nana Ababio, which was handling the destoolment charges against Nana Brembi. According to the elders of the area, while in exile in Sekondi, Nana Brembi continued to collect from the Lands Commission office in the city, lands rent for the Suaman stool. This, they said, was done without the approval of the traditional council.

“He has transferred the accounts of the traditional council from Dadieso to his personal accounts. He solely operates it and makes use of the royalties and other resources of the traditional council. He does all these with the approval of the Western Regional House of Chiefs”, the elders and citizens of the area stated in their two-page petition to President Kufuor.

One account from the two associations has it that the Judicial Committee of the house of chiefs ruled against Nana Brembi and okayed his destoolment but he filed an appeal at the National House of Chiefs challenging his destoolment and that the case has taken 13 years to be heard because Nana Brembi was working with the regional house.

But the regional minister told the Chronicle, on Tuesday that after 13 years, both the substantive case of incest and destoolment as well as an appeal from Nana Brembi challenging the powers of those seeking his destoolment are before the National House.

As the National House readies to determine the case of destoolment against Nana Brembi by the end of this month, Chronicle has learnt that Brembi has again been appointed by the Western Regional House of Chiefs to the National House of Chiefs where he would be working with Nana Ababio, the same chief who appointed him at the Western Regional House of Chiefs.

Interestingly, the former President of the Western Regional House of Chiefs, Nana Ababio, Paramount chief of Sefwi-Bekwai, who gave Nana Brembi the job at the regional house is now the president of the national house.

The elders and people of Dadieso say they smell a rat and that they have run out of patience on what they have run out of patience on what they called the time-buying tactics of Nana Brembi. They want a new chief even before the case would be heard.