Royalty of Antoahemaa Challenged

The royal status of the Queen of Antoa, Boa Daadom Pokua II, has come under scrutiny after she commenced processes for the enstoolment of a successor to the town’s destooled chief.
It will be recalled that in March 2024, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, gave a charge to the Queen to immediately take steps to fill the vacant stool.
On January 27, 2025, the Kumasi Traditional Council heard a case involving the invocation of the Great Oath against the Queen by a royal identified as Afrifa.
“Antoahemaa selected a candidate for the vacant stool. This prompted Afrifa to invoke the Great Oath against her for sidelining all other relevant stakeholders. He was summoned and questioned about his actions. At the meeting he invoked another oath to claim the Queen was not a royal and had no right to select a candidate,” the council was told.
Meanwhile, the Queen refused to counter the oath when she was made privy, the Council was further informed.
When asked if Afrifa is her grandson by Otumfuo at the Council meeting, she responded affirmatively.
“I felt that there was no need to tolerate the oath by counter-invoking to my defence because I was given an assignment by the Asantehene,” she explained her motive.
However, His Majesty stated, “There is an attack against your position by a young man and that shouldn’t be so. Clearly state your stance to clear all doubt. I will give you some time to respond back to me. Either you counter-invoke the oath, or if there is anything we need to know, you make us privy to it, so we understand how to proceed.”
Antoa Destoolment
Nana Kwame Owusu Agyeman was destooled on May 29, 2023, by the Occupant of the Golden Stool.
The chief was found to have gone against the customary procedures in enstooling his nephew to take over from him while he lived. When he was confronted by his kinsmen and elders to seek the permission of Otumfuo, he reportedly denigrated the King.
After hearing his case, the King ruled against him and ordered his destoolment.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini