KPETEKPLEY OLOGO VI TO BE BURIED DEC 5 (OCT 31, SPREAD)

THE late Paramount Chief of Yilo Krobo, Kpetekpley Narh Dautey Ologo VI, who died on May 7, this year, would be laid to rest at Somanya, the traditional capital on December 5, this year.
The acting President of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Council, Osayem Tetteh Odorkor Tuumeh, made this known when he addressed a press conference in Somanya yesterday.
The press conference, which was also attended by Nana Korlekuo Adjado, the Queen of Yilo Krobo, as well as sub-chiefs and elders of the traditional area, was to officially announce to the people the final funeral rites for Kpetekpley Dautey Ologo, who, until his death, was also the President of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs.
According to Osayem Tuumeh, the activities would cover 15 days, starting from December 1, on which citizens of Yilo Krobo, both in Ghana and abroad, would be expected to undertake a homeward journey to Somanya.
He said on the next day, December 2, the body of Kpetekpley Ologo would be sent to Somanya to lie in state on December 3 and December 4 before interment on December 5.
Osayem Tuumeh said the final funeral rites for the departed paramount chief would then begin from December 6 to 15. He invited Yilo Krobo citizens, both at home and abroad, as well as Ghanaians, to be in Somanya to give the late chief a befitting royal farewell.




The late Kpetekpley Ologo, known in private life as Cephas Kwame Narh, was born on October 10, 1937 at Akyem Maase to Emmanuel Kwame Dawutey and Sarah Dede Yomor, both of blessed memory from the Sra Langmasi Royal Clan of Yilo Krobo.
He had his basic education at the Maase Methodist School between 1943 and 1952 and then continued to the Government Secondary/Technical School, Takoradi, between 1953 and 1957.
His outstanding performance at the Sixth Form in the school earned him an appointment as Mathematics tutor in the same school, during which he had government scholarship in 1963 to study electrical engineering at the Prague Technical University in the then Czechoslovakia, where he obtained BSc. and MSc. degrees in Electrical Engineering.
Between 1970 and 1972, he moved to Germany, where he specialised in Hospital Engineering and obtained his postgraduate qualification in that field.
On June 23, 1972, he returned to Ghana and took appointment at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as maintenance engineer.
In 1972, Cephas Kwame Narh married the Grace Boabeng, with whom he had three sons, Maxwell Narh, Alexander Padi and Michael Edward Narh.
He was enstooled Konor of Yilo Krobo in 1978 under the stool name of Kpetekpley Narh Dawutey Ologo V1 to succeed Nene Padi Keteku Akrobetu III.
Some of his achievements were the formation of the Yilo Krobo State Council in 1990, renovation of the palace of the paramountcy, promotion of the Kloyosikplemi festival and the development of the Boti Falls as a tourist attraction.
Positions he held included vice-president and president of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs, member of the National House of Chiefs, chairman of the Research Committee of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs and member of the National House of Chiefs Research Committee.
Kpetekpley Ologo was also a member of the Eastern Regional Co-ordinating Council, the Eastern Regional Lands Commission as well as the Eastern Regional AIDS Commission.