Office of the Nkosuo HeneAdrobaa Traditional Authority

  • Development
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The stool thatanswers for it.

The Nkosuo Hene is charged with development: finding it, funding it, and accounting for it to the traditional council of Adrobaa. This is the office that does that work, and the record of what it has done.

Contact the officeThe development record
  • Adrobaa Traditional Authority
  • Tano North Municipal, Ahafo Region
  • Sanitation facility in construction at Adrobaa
Chiefs of Adrobaa seated in blue and gold kente during a council gathering

About the Office

Nkosuo Hene translates as Development Chief. Where many traditional seats are ceremonial, this one carries an explicit brief: attract development to the town, deliver it, and account for it to the traditional council.

Adrobaa, Tano North Municipal · Ahafo Region, Ghana

Development for the People, By the People.

The charge on the stool

Title
Nkosuo HeneThe stool charged with attracting and delivering development
Stool
AdrobaaTano North Municipal, Ahafo Region
Council
Traditional council of AdrobaaProjects are scoped with the elders before funds move
Duties
Durbars, festivals, arbitration, customThe ceremonial calendar governs availability

The Nkosuo Hene

Nana Oyeadieyie Barima Essoun I holds the Nkosuo stool of Adrobaa. He was enstooled before the elders, the queen mothers and the town, and answers to the traditional council for the work of the office.

Nana Oyeadieyie Barima Essoun I in green and gold kente with gold bracelets
Nana Oyeadieyie Barima Essoun I, Nkosuo Hene of Adrobaa.

Nana Oyeadieyie Barima Essoun I holds the Nkosuo stool of Adrobaa in Tano North Municipal, Ahafo Region. Where many traditional seats are ceremonial, the Nkosuo Hene carries an explicit brief: attract development to the town, deliver it, and account for it to the traditional council.

He pursues that brief on two fronts. As a chief he sits with the elders and queen mothers of Adrobaa, presides at durbars and festivals, and scopes every project with the council before funds move. As an executive he runs DeoMetals Ltd, a member of DGSC Group and a licensed precious metals dealer covering gold sourcing and purchasing, mining and refining operations, supply and export of minerals, trading, logistics and international distribution.

His stated agenda covers public sanitation, mechanised boreholes for clean drinking water, ring roads and street lighting, scholarships for brilliant but needy students, youth skills training, tree planting and community cleanliness. His own words for it: Development for the People, By the People.

Adrobaa Traditional Authority

The stool sits within the Adrobaa Traditional Authority, whose council of chiefs and queen mothers decides how things are done in Adrobaa, Tano North Municipal. Every project is scoped with that council before funds move.

The authority's own account is not yet published

The council's history, its constituent stools and its order of precedence are the authority's to set down, and nothing here stands in for them. The photographs below are the court as it meets. The account will appear here once the office writes it.

  • Chiefs of Adrobaa seated in blue and gold kente during a council gathering
    The stoolAdrobaa and the Nkosuo stoolAdrobaa sits in Tano North Municipal in the Ahafo Region. The Nkosuo Hene is not an honorary seat. The holder is charged with development: finding it, funding it, and reporting back to the council.
  • Queen mothers of Adrobaa in red and black cloth at a durbar
    The courtElders, queen mothers, customThe traditional council convenes for durbars, festivals and arbitration. Decisions on land, custom and development pass through this court before anything is announced.
  • Procession in green kente with gold ornaments during a festival at Adrobaa
    The calendarDurbars and festivalsThe ceremonial year sets the rhythm of the stool and governs when the chief can travel. Engagement requests are checked against this calendar first.

Community Development

What the office has undertaken for Adrobaa, what it has delivered, and what it can show for it. Every figure below says whether it was counted or stated.

GHC 0m
Invested to date
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Residents reached
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Projects on the agenda
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Communities served

Project count is taken from the record below. Investment, reach and community figures are as stated by the office of the Nkosuo Hene and are confirmed with the traditional council on request.

Public toilets, 20 seaters

In construction
  1. Architectural render of the sanitation block, front elevation, signed PUBLIC TOILET with separate male and female entrancesRender

    The design, as drawn

  2. A workman standing beside freshly poured concrete foundation trenches in red earth

    Foundation trenches poured

  3. The completed foundation footprint of the block, its rooms laid out in concrete at ground level

    The footprint, room by room

  4. Site crew mixing concrete beside stacked blocks as the walls begin to rise

    Blockwork under way

Clean drinking water

Ongoing
  1. The drilling rig raised on site beside its supply truck, crew standing by

    The rig on site

  2. Casing pipes stacked in the back of the delivery truck at the community

    Casing delivered

  3. Water running from the drill head into the pit at the moment the borehole is struck

    First water

Public toilets, 20 seaters

In construction
  1. Architectural render of the sanitation block, front elevation, signed PUBLIC TOILET with separate male and female entrancesRender

    The design, as drawn

  2. A workman standing beside freshly poured concrete foundation trenches in red earth

    Foundation trenches poured

  3. The completed foundation footprint of the block, its rooms laid out in concrete at ground level

    The footprint, room by room

  4. Site crew mixing concrete beside stacked blocks as the walls begin to rise

    Blockwork under way

Clean drinking water

Ongoing
  1. The drilling rig raised on site beside its supply truck, crew standing by

    The rig on site

  2. Casing pipes stacked in the back of the delivery truck at the community

    Casing delivered

  3. Water running from the drill head into the pit at the moment the borehole is struck

    First water

Projects

Every project on the agenda, with its status and an honest label on every picture. A render is marked as a render.

  • Architectural render of a public sanitation block for Adrobaa at duskRender
    Sanitation20 seatersIn construction

    Public toilets, 20 seaters

    Public sanitation blocks of twenty seaters, sited around the communities. Taken from architectural render to poured foundation and blockwork on site.

  • Drilling crew working the borehole rig in the community
    WaterOngoing

    Clean drinking water

    Mechanised boreholes drilled in the communities. The rig, the casing and the first water are all on record, so the town can see the work rather than hear about it.

  • Women of Adrobaa receiving brooms and cleaning supplies for the community
    Environment150 binsDelivered

    Clean community initiative

    About 150 dustbins placed at points across the communities to keep the environment clean and hygienic.

  • Sod cutting to open works at Adrobaa, before the chiefs and queen mothers
    InfrastructureCommitted

    Street and ring roads

    Ring roads through the community, opening the routes that carry produce, pupils and trade between the settlements.

  • A solar street lamp beside a laterite road at duskIllustration
    InfrastructureCommitted

    Street lights

    Lighting along the community roads, so that the evening does not end movement, trade or safety in the town.

  • Senior high school students in uniform outside their classroom block, laughing togetherIllustration
    EducationOngoing

    Scholarships for brilliant but needy students

    Support for pupils whose ability outruns their means, so that a place at school is settled by the student and not by the household budget.

  • Young people of Adrobaa on the community road
    Education5 a yearOngoing

    Youth skills and training

    Five young people are sent to fashion school every year on the stool, empowered with a trade they own rather than a promise they wait on.

  • Rows of tree seedlings in nursery bags on red earth, ready for plantingIllustration
    EnvironmentOngoing

    Green nature initiative

    Tree planting across the communities, put in now for shade, soil and air that the town will use long after the planting is forgotten.

Community Initiatives

Work the community carries and the office convenes. Distinct from the projects it funds and delivers.

No initiatives are published yet

The commitments below are the stool's own, stated by the Nkosuo Hene. They are what the office has undertaken to do, not a list of initiatives already running, and they are shown as such until the office posts the work itself.

  • Youth with a trade in hand

    Skills and training rather than encouragement. Five young people go to fashion school every year on the stool.

  • Scholarships where ability outruns means

    Support for brilliant but needy students, so that a place at school is decided by the pupil and not by the household budget.

  • The basics a town is owed

    Clean drinking water from mechanised boreholes, public sanitation, ring roads and street lights. Services people can point at.

  • A town that stays clean and green

    Tree planting across the communities, and 150 dustbins already placed to keep the environment clean and hygienic.

Announcements

Notices from the office. What the town needs to know now, dated, so a reader can tell at a glance whether it still stands.

No notices stand at present

This is where the office posts what the town needs to know now. An empty noticeboard means there is nothing outstanding, which is itself worth being able to see.

News

The record as it accumulates: work completed, dated and photographed, so it can be checked rather than taken on trust.

  • Presentation of a plaque at the office of Nana Oyeadieyie
    Photography

    Recognitions and presentations

    Award and plaque presentations received at the office, cleared for editorial use.

  • DeoMetals Ltd banner listing precious metals and trade services
    Business

    DeoMetals Ltd, precious metals and global trade

    Company imagery covering the licence, the operations and the trade lines.

Press kit

Approved biographies, cleared photography and the correct forms of address, ready to download.

  • Approved biography, long and short form
  • High resolution photography, regalia and business dress
  • Correct forms of address and title usage
  • Enstoolment film, broadcast quality
  • DeoMetals Ltd company summary
Open the press kit

Speeches

My vision is to empower the youth with skills and training, and to bring development to the communities. Development for the People, By the People.

Nana Oyeadieyie Barima Essoun I

  • The charge on the stool

    In his own words

    Development for the People, By the People.

    The line he uses for the whole of it. Development is not something the town receives; it is something the town does, with the stool finding and funding the means.

Events

Durbars, festivals and commissionings. The ceremonial calendar governs the year of the authority, and every other commitment is arranged around it.

Nothing is published for the coming weeks. Dates are posted here once the traditional council has confirmed them against the ceremonial calendar. These are the engagements the office accepts:

  • Appearance and bookings

    Conferences, launches, panels, durbars and state occasions.

  • Partnership and investment

    Corporate partners funding development work in Adrobaa and the wider Ahafo Region.

  • Diaspora support

    For Ghanaians abroad contributing to named projects in the town.

  • Protocol and courtesy calls

    Formal visits to the palace, courtesy calls and traditional council matters.

Request an appearance

Contact the Office

Write to the office. Appearances are confirmed against the traditional calendar, which takes precedence over every other commitment: allow six weeks for engagements outside Ghana and three within it.

If you have one. It is checked against the traditional calendar, which takes precedence.

Office of the Nkosuo Hene, Adrobaa, Tano North Municipal, Ahafo Region, Ghana

Before you write to the office

  • The Development Chief. Where many stools are ceremonial, this one carries an explicit brief: attract development to the town, deliver it, and account for it to the traditional council.

  • Adrobaa is in the Tano North Municipal district of the Ahafo Region, Ghana.

  • Yes. International engagements are accepted subject to the traditional calendar, which takes precedence over all other commitments.

  • Either. Full regalia carries protocol requirements around seating, procession and precedence, so state your preference when you request the appearance and the palace will confirm what is involved.

  • DeoMetals Ltd is a licensed precious metals dealer and a member of DGSC Group. The business covers gold sourcing and purchasing, mining and refining operations, supply and export of minerals, general trading and logistics, and international distribution.

  • Through the partnership route in the engage section. Every project is scoped with the traditional council before any funds move, and progress is photographed and published.

  • Public toilets of twenty seaters around the communities, mechanised boreholes for clean drinking water, ring roads and street lights, scholarships for brilliant but needy students, five youth placements into fashion school each year, tree planting, and about 150 dustbins already placed to keep the communities clean.

  • Six weeks for international engagements and three weeks for engagements within Ghana. Shorter notice is sometimes possible outside festival season.

  • Yes. Request the media kit and you will receive cleared high resolution files, approved biographies and guidance on correct title usage.