The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has claimed that he will not use force to compel anyone to kneel to him.
During the first Council Meeting in the Ashanti Region, the Asantehene stated that he plans to give those eager to work for him a makeover.
If others are willing to submit in order to accomplish the essential development and success in their domains, he believes they will succeed.
He said: “I don’t believe you have any impact; those who desire a dignified status will be granted it and assisted.”
Otumfuo also declared that he would work relentlessly to ensure that places in Bono East under his jurisdiction received the best possible treatment.
“If you are unable to fight for Asanteman, please vacate the seat to allow others to do so. If you are incapable of making the sacrifices made by our forefathers, you do not deserve the seat.
“Bono East, as well, anyone attempting to raise his or her shoulders must exercise caution; it is not permitted under my watch. If you assert that you are a man, I assert that I am also a man. And in 1948, my uncle raised you up with Drobohene.” Otumfuo revealed.
“If you say today that no one can make the other a subject, then tell me who here is making the other a servant. “No one has enslaved the neighbor,” he emphasized.
It follows the Dormaahene’s apparent challenge to the Asantehene’s control over parts of Dormaa.
The Dormaahene Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyeman II has earlier asserted that the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has no jurisdiction over any part of his traditional realm in the then-Brong-Ahafo Region.
“No land within my traditional area belongs to the Asantehene,” he stated during a press conference, ostensibly in response to the Asantehene’s, Otumfuo’s, comment.
“People should not believe that Brong-Ahafo is not a part of Asanteman,” the Asantehene said in a different interaction. It is, and Asanteman’s authority is represented by me, the Asantehene.”
