[ 2010-09-01 ]

Is Kumawuhemaa on course to win?
"For lack of knowledge, my people perish", so says
God in the good old book. May I paraphrase it as
"For lack of faith, my people suffer" The bible
further says...,

..."Faith without works is faithless" My writing
today to update Kumawuman on the pending
chieftaincy dispute of which my readers are
already aware, will revolve around the quoted
sayings.

It must be noted that the ineligibility of the
Kumawuhemaa and her supposed Ankaase royal family
has extensively been researched, written about,
and was about to be narrated in public before the
Asanteman Council. Kumawuhemaa in her defence
statement submission to Court on her interdiction
to enthrone a person of her choice as the
succeeding Kumawumanhene, had said, or sought to
say, that, both the members of the current
Anananagya and Odumase royal families are slaves
and hence, cannot ascend to the Kumawu paramount
Kodua Stool.

The Ananangyas had slapped her with the
"Asantehene Ntamkese" (Asantehene's Great Oath)
with the aim of counteracting her spoken and
written views about them. The invoked oath was
also rather intended for proving her as the
greatest slave of all time. One may be right,
without any fear of arrest for "spreading panic
and causing harm in public", to say that,
Kumawuhemaa's notion of the Ananangyas and the
Odumases is a comical situation reminiscent of the
cooking pot calling the kettle you are black.

There is a discovered archived documentation on
the Ankaase royal family. My intention is not to
discuss the said documents today but how the
Ananangyas/Odumases have got themselves trapped
simply for being faithless. The content of the
documents if they were revealed would send quiver
down the spine of Kumawuhemaa and her renowned
visionless Ankaase royal family.

From the outset, Kumawuhemaa had made her
intentions known. She is resolutely determined to
ensure an Ankaase royal ascends to the throne
despite the defiance mounted by the
Ananangyas/Odumases. She had arranged, backed by
her Ankaase royal family members, to drag the case
for at least ten years.

Their belief has always been, the
Ananangyas/Odumases as poor as they are like
"Asore dan mu akura" will capitulate long
beforehand. This is a mind game she is playing on
the Ananangyas/Odumases. Unfortunately, the
Ananangya and the Odumase royal families are
collapsing like a pack of cards at the dangling of
this magical wand. This powerful tool or stratagem
as employed has set confusion in the camp of the
Ananagyas/Odumases.

To proceed any further, it must be noted that the
Ananangyas and the Odumases are the true paramount
royals of Kumawuman. The Ankaases wriggled
themselves through only by the underhand deal of
their forebear, Yaw Dabo, with his brother-in-law,
Nana Osei Yaw Akoto, the then Asantehene. How this
nefarious act was cowardly executed to the
astonishment of any discerning person has already
been described in one of my previous write-ups.

The Ankaases have been visionless traditional
leaders for most of the times that they have
ascended the Kumawu paramount Kodua Stool. From
the days of Barima Kwame Afram through to that of
the late Barima Asumadu Sakyi II until the sitting
queen, there could be a chronological catalogue of
reprehensible malfeasances committed by them. All
these have/had augured ill for the development of
the area. As I said earlier, I am least interested
in the malpractices of the Ankaases but more
curious about the consequential adverse effects of
the "wait and see" cum turtle race attitude as
adopted by the Ananangyas/Odumases, on not only
themselves but on the entire Kumawuman.

The support of the people for the
Ananangyas/Odumases is fast dwindling according as
revealed by a conducted investigation. By the
prognostication of other Kumawuman citizens
domiciled abroad, the foot-dragging by the
Ananangyas in contrast to sensible expectation has
almost completely put them off. They had rather
anticipated the Ananangyas/Odumases were going to
capitalize on the initial public support to
conduct themselves vivaciously in their quest to
repossess their throne stolen from them by the
Ankaases. But what do they see?
Ananangyas/Odumases fumbling an attempt as though
their poverty has robbed them of their common
sense, rendering them quaking cowards.

The Ankaase royal family is good at persisting in
whatever they decide doing however diabolical it
may be. Barely had the late Barima Asumadu Sakyi
II from Ankaase been enthroned when he embezzled a
great sum of money from the Kumawuman Traditional
Area coffers. This was about a year or two into
his reign in mid 1970s. Almost the entire people
of Kumawu turned against him for this major act of
corruption committed by him.

This was what gave rise to what became "yate
asem", a popular opposition movement which
spontaneously sprung up with the aim of deposing
him. He resisted all attempts to dethrone him. He
employed any means possible to remain the
"Omanhene" until his death in the year 2007. The
rate at which many of his adversaries died made
people suspect him of using "juju" or other foul
means to exterminating them. Whatever the case,
nobody could remove him from the throne until Mr.
Death laid his mighty icy hand on him, bundled him
off in his palanquin to "Asamando", the land of no
return.

Kumawuhemaa with the tacit support of "Ote kokoo
so", Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is frustrating the bona
fide owners of the throne, the Ananangyas and the
Odumases. She is resolved to dragging the case at
a pace even slower than the crawl of the tortoise
or the snail. This strategy which she perceives to
be able to compel the Ananangyas/Odumases to
cave-in to her unreasonable demand to choose the
person after her heart as the next Kumawuhene is
working.

The God's Chosen One from the Ananangya royal
family is so frustrated that he has temporarily
given up the fight to wrestle their birthright
throne from the usurper Ankaase royals. He is
about to leave, or, has left Ghana for his
overseas abode. As Kwasi Sarpong was crushed, so
has the Ananangya candidate, the God's own Chosen
One.

Many have become causalities in the fight to
succeed the late Barima Asumadu Sakyi II as
Kumawumanhene. The first of such causalities was
Yaw Sarpong whose wife, Akosua, divorced him. The
second was Akwasi Sarpong whose house was put up
for sale. The third is the God's own Chosen One
who has vamoosed owing to the intentional
shilly-shallying by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Truly,
Otumfuo is doing everything possible to assist his
girlfriend, the Kumawuhemaa, to win the case
although; history proves that she with her Ankaase
royals is not the true royal.

The woman has all along been asserting that she
was going to win the case because her boyfriend,
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, would never decide the case
against her but in her favour. How was Asantehene
going to do so, you may ask? He was going to do as
does some corrupt Court judges in Ghana -
incessant but unnecessary deferments of the
hearing of the case until the would-be real victor
gives up and the would-have-been loser emerged
victorious.

I am not going to waste precious time proving how
Asantehene has directly or indirectly connived
with Kumawuhemaa to render the Ananangyas/Odumases
scumbags in the eyes of Kumawuman citizens.
Whoever wants to know how, should please read all
my published articles on the Kumawuman chieftaincy
dispute by simply clicking on my name on the top
right hand side corner when reading it on
Ghanaweb.

Kumawuhemaa has proudly been saying that
Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is her boyfriend.
The way Otumfuo has conducted himself in ways
unacceptable to standards as exemplified by his
idol, the Biblical King Solomon, inferably means
that he is an item with Kumawuhemaa as she
alleges.

This article is purposely written to inform
Kumawuman of the frustration of the God's Chosen
One and also to castigate the Ananangyas/Odumases
for their faithlessness. They have arrived at this
tortuous juncture in their fight for the throne
because they seem not to trust fully the
directions of God. They are very hesitant and may
seem to listen more to those chiefs who are but
the secret agents of, or couriers for,
Kumawuhemaa.

These agents probably sweet-talk them into
exercising extreme patience for Asantehene without
rushing to enquire about anything or else, Otumfuo
gets angered. This is bollocks! Why shouldn't the
Ananangyas/Odumases be able to approach Otumfuo to
seek answers for his dilly-dallying? Why shouldn't
they seek alternative means to resolving the case
rather than to continue waiting on Otumfuo who is
hell bent on deciding the case in favour of his
girlfriend through his adopted deplorable "go
slow" tactics?

Do I continue to accuse Otumfuo endlessly? No! I
should rather accuse the Ananangyas/Odumases for
being timid and also, for acting very
unreasonably. When Otumfuo in his verdict delivery
on the Ananangya vs. Wurukye case categorically
said that the Ananangyas should go for their
throne seeing that they are the true royals, they
rather chose to go on wild jubilation and then
recoiled into their shell as does the snail or
tortoise.

Had Asantehene once not warned Kumawuhemaa that
the very day Wurukye was found guilty, she,
Kumawuhemaa, is also guilty? Why should the
Ananangyas/Odumases always seek to complicate
issues by adding their own conservative
traditional ideas or explanations to continually
deter the case from resolving quickly? Is it hard
to understand when Otumfuo tells you to go for the
throne?

Go for the throne simply means go for the throne
period! There are no ifs and buts! Was Otumfuo
gurgling when he asked you to go for the throne so
you couldn't hear him properly? Don't you realise
that Kumawuhemaa has accepted defeat by her
failure to counteract the oath so-invoked on her
by Nana Nti Kwakye, the Head of the Ananangya
royal family? Do you expect me to fly all the way
down like an eagle from Uncle Sam to shout this
simple fact into your probably waxed ears?

God has severally told you through various means
that He has completed the work of handing over the
throne to you so go for it. Have I not written
copiously about it myself? Yet, the
Ananangyas/Odumases for lack of faith in God are
as immovable as "Osuo abrobo3, otim nea otim". I
am highly disappointed in them.

They are failing Kumawuman big time. Do they think
God will descend from His Heavenly Throne to come
to Kumawu, take his Chosen One from Ananangya and
sit him on the throne? Do they think God will send
His angel to slap Asantehene to compel him to
decide the case quickly? Do they think God will
send His angels to go and scare Kumawuhemaa to
force her to release the throne to them? The
answer to each question posed is a Big NO! They
have to walk the walk themselves, after invariably
talking the talking of taking their throne from
the Ankaase come what may. Have they forgotten
that whenever God does anything for anyone He
expects the person to receive it with faith by
doing some related work?

The Ananangyas/Odumases are to read the bible to
understand how God works to act accordingly. Go to
the Asantehene to find out if he is able to sit on
the case. He begged you to allow him to arbitrate
the case by removing it from court and brought
before him. Was it a hatched plot meant to help
his girlfriend win the case? NO! The problems
being faced by the Ananangyas/Odumases are the
results of their inability to discern issues and
circumstances properly. They are too entrenched in
conservatism.

Have they forgotten that Alex Konadu a.k.a One Man
Thousand once said, "If all humans are
metamorphosing into beasts, do transform as well
or else, they will turn on you to devour after
their transmutation?" This is to inform the
Ananangyas/Odumases that they are to be smart in
the game they are playing with Kumawuhemaa and
Otumfuo as both don't believe the least, the
stringent conservative requirements of tradition
or else, Asantehene would have obliged Kumawuhemaa
to respond to that invocation of Ntamkese on her
long ago.

Kumawuman had hoped the Ananagyas were coming to
assist their only Son of the soil now in
government to develop the area but as it stands
now, their expectations may not materialise any
time soon. This is how the Asantehene and his
girlfriend, Kumawuhemaa, are punishing Kumawuman.
Is Kumawuhemaa also not one of the self-seeking
greedy bastards Rawlings alludes to be causing the
downfall of Ghana?

If truly, the God's Chosen One has absconded, I
will entreat him to go back as God has ordained
him to be His faithful servant to liberate
Kumawuman from the poisonous tentacles of the
Ankaase royals. Kumawuhemaa has won the first
round of the battle by frustrating the Ananangyas
but God says He has already won the fight for the
Ananagyas/Odumases. It is up to them to rise up as
warriors to take their throne.

Charles de Gaulle once said, "La France a perdu
une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la
gurre" (France has lost a battle, but France has
not lost the war). The Ananangyas/Odumases have
lost the psychological battle to subdue the queen
but they haven't lost the war for the takeover of
the traditional rule of Kumawuman. Same as the
French in the end emerged victorious over the
Germans in the second world war, so will the
Ananangyas/Odumases overcome the queen and her
Ankaase royals.

No matter how discouraged he is; no matter how far
he runs doing "the biblical JONAH" God says, His
Chosen One from the Ananangyas will be the
succeeding paramount chief to the late Barima
Asumadu Sakyi II. He should understand that he can
run but he can't hide. Kumawuhemaa is a goner try
as she does! This is the wish of the people. And
the wish of the people is the wish of God.

Source - John Fosu

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