The Planning Committee of the final funeral service of the late Ga Manye, Naa Dedei Omaedru III, has dismissed claims that it has hijacked the funeral preparations.
Some family members of the Ga Manye accused the Ga Traditional Council of sidelining them in the organization of the funeral.
However, in an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, a member of the funeral planning committee and President of Ga Adangbe Council, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, rejected these assertions and described them as false.
An interim injunction slapped against the ceremony was set aside by the court on October 26, paving the way for the final funeral rites of the late Ga Manye to proceed as scheduled.
Justice Patrick Baayeh, the High Court judge who granted the order of interim injunction, subsequently said that the order was an error.
According to Nii Ayikoi Otoo, the Ga Manye family was part of the Planning Committee but opted out.
He indicated that the court took into account the balance of convenience, hence the overturn of the earlier ruling.
“Those misbehaving are aware that it is the Ga Traditional Council that is organizing the funeral. These people were members of the funeral committee but withdrew their representation. They went to court to misrepresent us by securing an interim injunction against the chairman and the secretary. We are talking about fickle-mindedness, and it’s nobody’s fault. I told you this order in our view cannot hold.”
“One of the things that they said to the judge was the fact that we were preventing them from taking part in the funeral like we have hijacked the funeral, which is not true. The court thought that we were now about to start the preparation. But the funeral has taken off. We have spent so much money. The court took into account the balance of convenience. The court said it erred and set it aside,” he told Umaru Sanda Amadu.
Some seven interested parties went to court over the funeral, insisting that they had been sidelined by the Ga Traditional Council in the organization of the ceremony.