{"id":2277,"date":"2019-08-30T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2019-08-30T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:50:43","slug":"breaking-house-of-chiefs-declares-bunkpurugu-chiefs-enskinment-null-and-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/breaking-house-of-chiefs-declares-bunkpurugu-chiefs-enskinment-null-and-void","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: House of Chiefs declares Bunkpurugu Chief\u2019s enskinment null and void"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Northern Regional House of Chiefs has declared the enskinment of the current Bunkpurugu Chief Alhaji Abuba Nasimong null and void, Africa-press.com\/ghana\/ reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a ruling in Tamale on Thursday August 29, 2019, the Court observed that the chief could not trace his lineage to any of the two known royal gates to be enskinned as a chief of the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the evidence that came before us only two families have in the past succeeded the Bunkpurugu skin and our ruling is that it is only those two families who are royal families to Bunkpurugu and only they can succeed the skin\u201d, the ruling stated<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Fataw Yakubu revealed that the two notable families are the Jamong and the Jafeok families and that any other family apart from these two cannot claim to be a royal who ascend to the Bunkpurugu skin.<\/p>\n<p>Zeroing on the Chief of Bunkpurugu in particular he said\u201dThe second respondent [Alhaji Abuba Nasimong] who was enskinned by the Nayiri could not trace his royal lineage from the time the Bunkpurugu skin was established in Ghana. He also traced his royal lineage from the time the Bimobas were in Togo so his claim to royalty is not founded on enskinment in Ghana but rather enskinment in Togo. But the skin in Togo is different from the Skin in Ghana so we cannot allow him to prevail because that will create a lot of confusion. It will mean that all those royal families from Togo are also qualified and we cannot accept that situation. It is very technical issue at this point\u2026you see chieftaincy there are two criteria, royal family and royal lineage. 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