Berekum: Chieftaincy Dispute Looms in Biadan

There is what is emerging as Chieftaincy dispute as a Roy

al family in Biadan, a suburb of Berekum has vowed to protect their royal right no matter what it will take them to.
The Kyeremehase Royal family of Biadan in the Berekum Municipality is sending strong signals to the Berekum Traditional Council and the Gyaasehene of Biadan Nana Kwabena Nyamekye Anderson to desist from diverting the royal lineage from Kyeremehase to a nonroyal, a move they described as unacceptable.
Speaking in an interview with Ark news monitored by Soiree News,  Opanin Kofi Nyame-Yeboah, the Kyeremehase Abusuapanin said, “ the two royal gates of Biadan are the Kyeremehase and the Ntwanase gates but some of the leadership are trying to change the lay down the tradition of matrilineal inheritance of chieftaincy among the Akans”.
This he says can never be accepted and as such charging the traditional leadership of the town to as a matter of urgency desist from the act before the situation gets out of hands. The 
He explains that what has brought the confusion is the kingmaker's denial of two families who also presented candidates for the kingship after the stool has been vacant for some time now whiles they do not belong to any of the gates.
“The Kingmakers rejected the Yaw-Ro and Awuah families who also sent a candidate on the base that they are not part of the royal family since they are from the patrilineal lineage and are holding other stools already, therefore, cannot be deemed fit for the chieftaincy of Biadan”.
But these families according to the Abusuapanin knowing very well that they do not have the traditional right to inherit the throne sent the issue to the Berekum Traditional Council Judicial committee.
He added that the Berekum hene directed them to resolve the issue among the Yaw-Ro and Awuah families describing it as unacceptable since the two families do not belong to the mother lineage of Kyeremehase or Ntwanase.
“The Mother of Nana Yaw-Ro who was the chief of Numasua back then, she was married to Nana Awuah the Father of Nana Kyeremeh and came to take over the seat of Biadan since there was no male adult to ascend the throne in those days. Therefore the son of a rival cannot become a royal of the other half mother”, he narrated.
 They have therefore vowed to prevent any attempt to install one Nana Yaw Asomah, a C.O.P retired from Yaw-Ro’s family as they have already chosen Nana Kwadwo Kyeremeh Ababio and Nana Kosua Dansowaah as queen mother for Badan.