Sunyani (Brong Ahafo) - The Judicial Committee of the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs has granted an interim injunction against the paramount chief of Dormaa and two others to restrain them from nominating a queenmother for the area until a suit pending on the matter is determined.
By virtue of the ruling, Osagyefo Oseadeyor Agyeman-Badu II's purported installation of his 32 year-old sister, Miss Evelyn Mensah alias Mama as the queenmother of the traditional area has been put on hold. Miss Mensah is, therefore, restrained from holding herself out as the queenmother of Dormaa until the final determination of the substantive case. The committee awarded 400,000 cedis cost against the Dormaahene and the two other respondents the Gyaasehene, Barima Oppong Ababio and the Dormaa Traditional Council.
The respondents were neither present nor represented during the sitting. Arguing for the injunction, Counsel for the petitioners, Mr Yaw Wiredu- Peprah said when the paramount and the queenmother stools of Dormaa became vacant sometime back, the king and queen makers decided to share the two slots among the Atoase and Akanase families.
He said somewhere last year, the paramount seat was given to the present chief, who is from the Atoase family whilst that of the queenmother was expected to go to his client?s the Akanase family. Mr Wiredu-Peprah said despite several approaches from his clients, Osagyefo Agyeman-Badu II has gone ahead to install his own sister as the queenmother in contravention of the decision.
The committee after deliberations granted the injunction and directed that recognition of Miss Mensah as Dormaa Queenmother be withheld until the final determination of the substantive suit.
