The Akpini Traditional Council (Kpando) is ready to outdoor her new Paramount Chief on Sunday March 6, 2022.
This was revealed by the Afedzikporfia and Chief of Kpando Agbenoxoe; Togbe Opeku VI in an interview with the press.
He recounted that a 7-day process of installing the Paramount Chief started on Sunday 27th February, 2022 during which the candidate; Mr. Bernard Elikem Ablenyi-Buachi was confined for 7 days as preparatory rituals are performed.
Currently, the streets of Kpando are awash with people making merry amidst the beating of traditional drums and the firing of muskets in preparation for Sunday’s activities.
Residents are particularly excited because they see the process as an end to close to 40 years of chieftaincy litigation that has suffocated the development of the area. Many efforts have been made towards the attainment of lasting peace and unity.
Togbui Opeku was particularly grateful to the “Elite Group” of Kpando for their immense efforts at ensuring a successful enstoolment and a fresh beginning for the Akpini chieftaincy machinery.
Sons and daughters of Kpando from all over the world have been responding positively to the development and are hoping that the new Chief will quickly settle in and address salient issues affecting the development of the people of Kpando and the entire Akpini Traditional Area.
Concerns raised by some residents in the town include the relegation of the community’s festival “danyibakaka” to the back burner for many years. Many of the young men and women say they have not seen their festival celebrated since they were born. “This festival we are told has great significance for us as a people and details our journey so far” a resident explained.
After the 7 days, the candidate will become Okpekpewuokpe Torgbui Dagadu IX.
The candidate; Bernard Ablenyi-Buachi, a young man in his mid-thirties, is an experienced broadcast journalist, writer and publicist. He is the Ashanti Regional Chair of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW), an old student of the Bishop Herman College, Kpando and an alumni of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He is married with three kids.
