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The National House of Chiefs has asked the general public to ignore posts seeking to lure Togbe Afede into talks about the Agyapa royalty deal.
The House in a statement said that neither the House of Chiefs nor its President has issued any statement on the agreement, therefore such posts should be ignored.
This comes at the end of the round-robin posts Togbe Afedzi launched against some ethnocentric comments made by former President John Mahama about the Agyapa royalty deal.
In an earlier statement, allegedly emanating from the Togbe Afede camp, Asogli’s Agbogbomefia condemned the sharing of a Facebook post that was first seen on the timeline of Bolga Central MP Isaac Adongo by former President John Mahama.
The Facebook post suggested that Agyapa’s royalty investment deal is a fraudulent deal between President Akufo-Addo and the people of Akyem in the eastern region.
This followed the statement saying that such comments promote ethnocentrism, which is unhealthy for the country, especially as it approaches the December 2020 elections, therefore it must be condemned.
But Togbe Afede, in another statement signed by National House of Chiefs public relations officer Stephen Owusu, is distancing himself from the statement.
He noted that neither the president nor the leadership of the Chamber of Chiefs has issued any statement in this regard, so the people who have something to do with the publication are “people who obviously seek ways to legitimize the irregularities.”
“The Chamber wishes to state unequivocally that neither the President nor the leadership of the Chamber has issued such a statement or press release.
“Therefore, it is absurd for any person or group of people to try to involve the president and the National Chamber of Chiefs in the controversial Agyapa / Asaase royalty transaction,” he said.
The Chamber of Chiefs has further urged the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to “institute a comprehensive investigation into the false publication.”
