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Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri II, the Paramount Chief of the Sunyani Traditional Area and the Sunyani Traditional Council, and two others have been charged with contempt of court in connection with the gazette of Madam Abenaa Brayie Donkor, the Sunyani Traditional Council's queen mother.

In a request filed by Nana Obiri Boahen, of the Sunyani-based law company "Enso Nyame Ye Chambers," and counsel, the applicants ask the Kumasi High Court to imprison the respondents, namely Madam Donkor and one Nana Obiri Yeboah.

The plaintiffs include Madam Yaa Animah, the immediate Nana Nyamaa and Boahen Korkor Royal Family Head, and Mr Kwasi Mensah, another Royal Family Head.

A copy of the writ, obtained by the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani, requests that the respondents be committed for willful/deliberate, and conscious attempt to scandalize and expose the administration of justice to public ridicule and contempt, conduct that is willfully calculated to undermine the integrity of justice.

It stated that "gazing Madam Donkor, notwithstanding the pendency of a substantive litigation and move on notice for interlocutory injunction, is disrespectful of the court and a blatant disdain for the administration of justice."

According to the plaintiff, the respondents purposefully and maliciously undermined the administration of justice by treating court processes with contempt, specifically a "motion on notice for interlocutory" filed on August 11, 2022, which was still pending in relation to the chieftaincy petition before a judicial committee.

"Holding out or recognizing Madam Brayie as the queen mother of Sunyani Traditional Council, knowing full well that a chieftaincy petition has been mounted against her and also an application for injunction has been applied for and same is awaiting determination, thereby rendering the entire application and, to a large extent, the entire action/suit is not moot," it added.

The defendants were ordered to promote, facilitate, support, and urge Madam Donkor to continue to portray herself as the queen mother of the Sunyani Traditional Council, despite the pending interlocutory injunction and substantive chieftaincy case.

Nana Nkrawiri II appointed, declared, and enstooled Mrs Bright Donkor Faakye, a retired educationist, as the Paramount Queen Mother of the Sunyani Traditional Area only two years ago.

Mrs Faakye, whose stool name is Nana Akosua Duaa Brayie II, is a Sunyani monarch of the Boahen Korkor Asenie-Kodie-Adonten royal dynasty. She replaced Nana Yaa Nyamaa Poduo II, who reigned for 47 years and died on August 1, 2019, aged 64.

However, the Boahen Korkor Nana Nyamaa Royal Family, the Mother Gate of the three Sunyani Royal Families, namely Akosua Duaa, Kwantwiwaa, and Nyantakyiwaa, has subsequently contested the legality of the Queen mother's installation.

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