The Tema Community will on Saturday get a new Bissa Chief as the 40th Day Dua is held to mark the final funeral rites of the former who died in October.
A joint event to be held at Tema community 1 will see Mr Gibrilla Bancey accede the seat of leadership upon the death of his brother Ibrahim Mahmoud Bancey, who ruled for 26 years.
The coronation is going to held concurrently with the 40th day dua due to the tradition of getting a replacement just as the final funeral rites is done for the dead.
It comes after broader consultations and endorsement by the Greater Accra Council of Bissa Chiefs, chaired by the regional Chief Mohammed Ali Dabre III, family says.
“It is a joint event to be held according to Bissa traditions,” the Bancey family adds.
“Leadership has agreed and we are going by that, despite its short notice to the general Bissa public.
“We invite all Bissas from far and near to join us in giving a befitting farewell to the dead and a heroic welcome to the successor.”
Saturday’s ceremony of sorrow and merry, to be held at the forecourt of the Tema Municipal Assembly in Community 1, will be graced by the Vice President of Ghana Dr Mahamudu Bawmia, according to information gathered by bissanewsonline.
Kir Ibrahim Mahmoud Bancey, who became the Chief of Tema on June 25th 1995, died on Saturday 23rd October at age 73.
His 40th-day Dua will be marked according to islamic tradition and will be followed by the investiture of his successor Gibrilla Mahamudu Bansi, who has distinguished himself so well to be accepted for the position.
They are both sons of the first Bissa Chief of Tema, Mahmoudu Kuniguru Bancey, whose tenure began in the 60s and died on 13th April 1995.
The coming in of Gibrilla Mahamudu Bancey marks the beginning of a new era for the family and the Bissas as well as the fraternity extends its influence across the country.
Gibrilla Mahamudu, a business man, a husband one and a father four, thus becomes the 3rd of the Banceys to ascend to the seat of Bissa leadership in the industrial city of Tema.