Gonja Traditional Council officially deskins Buipe chief

Gonja Traditional Council officially deskins Buipe chief


The Gonjaland Traditional Council under the Presidency of Yagbon-Wura Tuntunba Borisa Sulemana Jakpa II has officially announced the deskinment of Mr. Abdulai Mahama Jinapor II as the chief of Buipe.
Despite the recent court injunction placed on the Buipe chieftaincy supremacy, the council went ahead and announced its final decision on Mr. Mahama Abdulai Jinapor’s deskinment and declared Chief Bawa Jewu Awushie Lebu II as his successor.
The Spokesperson for the Gonjaland Traditional Council, Bundawura Alhaji Rashid Sulemana, flanked by Wasipewura, Kawsuguwura, Choriwura, Sagyawura, linguist of the Overlord of Gonja Traditional area Afuli, among other prominent chieft in the traditional council dropped this hint at a news conference held yesterday at the Centre for National Culture in Tamale.
He announced that the decision was taken as a result of what he referred to as Mr. Mahama Abdulai Jinapor’s gross disrespect for the Yagbon-Wura and his elders during the council’s last meeting held at Damongo.
Bundawura Alhaji Rashid alleged that Mr. Mahama Jinapor openly, at the said meeting, pulled out a pistol and unsuccessfully fired three shots which brought the meeting to an abrupt end.
The Gonjaland Traditional Council Spokesperson therefore warned that any individual, office or institution that recognizes Mr. Mahama Abdulai Jinapor II as the chief of Buipe does so at its own risk. It will be recalled that solicitors for Mr. Mahama Abdulai Jinapor II filed an order of injunction at a Tamale High Court restraining the Gonjaland Traditional Council from enskinning his successor.
Mr. Mohammed Alhassan counsel for Mr. Abdulai Mahama Jinapor filed an order of injunction at the court and quashed the decision of the Gonjaland traditional council over his client’s deskinment.
The motion warned the Gonja Traditional Council against any attempt to perform any function of the Buipewura until the court decided appropriately on the matter.
The spokesperson also alleged that Mr. Mahama Abdulai Jinapor has cause a lot of atrocities in the Gonja land ranging from violence, abuse of people, threatening lives, disrespecting the traditional Council among others.