How insulting are the alleged threats by the fewer supporters of the alleged
Kumawuhene Barima Sarfo Tweneboa Kodua to disrupt the funeral of the late Kumawu
Akyempemhene! The news is rife in Kumawu and Bodomase that the Kumawu Ahenfie
(palace) boys with their other few sympathisers, the only supporters of the purported
Kumawuhene Barima Sarfo Tweneboa Kodua, have planned to spoil the funeral of the late
Nana Okyere Krapa II, the Kumawu Akyempemhene.


For the information of the general public, especially those interested in chieftaincy
matters, Kumawu Akyempemhene, Nana Okyere Krapa II, passed on Friday 9 September
2016. His remains will be laid in state at Kumawu-Bodomase on Wednesday 15 February
2017, buried on the late night of Thursday 16 February 2017 and his final funeral
rites held on Saturday 18 February 2017.


However, there are rumours doing rounds in Kumawu and Bodomase that the handful of
supporters of Dr Yaw Sarfo, the supposed Kumawu Omanhene imposed on Kumawuman by
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the “Overlord” of Asanteman, have decided to
proceed to Bodomase to cause commotion with intent to disrupt the funeral
celebrations.


One wonders the sanity, intelligence and level of education of these young men, when
as fewer as they are, they always aspire to engage the numerous supporters of
Kumawuhene Barima Tweneboa Kodua V in a fight. Normal people will not behave the way
they always audaciously do; conducting and portraying themselves as though they stand
the chance of winning a fight against the supporters of Barima Tweneboa Kodua V when
they take them on.


I recall vividly well when these same Kumawu Palace boys descended on Bodomase with
intent to disrupt Barima Tweneboa Kodua V’s sister’s funeral on Saturday 2nd
April 2016. They rather ended up running for their sheer lives with their machetes
and guns notwithstanding or else, they would have been beaten to a pulp.


Again, when the relatives of Barima Tweneboa Kodua V were celebrating the funeral of
a relative at Kumawu Ananagya, these same supporters of Barima Sarfo Tweneboa Kodua
threatened to proceed to Ananangya to spoil the funeral.


One cannot tell what has come upon them to always wish to go to wherever Barima
Tweneboa Kodua V is celebrating the funeral of a relative with intent to cause
problems.


Be it known to them the Akan proverb which goes, “Se akyekyedee epe ne mmogya dodo3
a ye de nsuo fera mu”. If they wish for problems, they will have them abundantly.


Since that day (Saturday 2nd April 2016) when they had to run, leaving their sandals
behind, all their subsequent threats only amount to bluffing.


Let me take this opportunity to educate these sycophants, reiterating to them that
the injustices they perpetrated with impunity during the era of former President
Mahama who was supportive of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, in all his breaches of conventions
with the aim to robbing Kumawuman of their lands and money in a broad daylight cannot
be repeated today.


How many a time had Otumfuo Osei Tutu II not gone to seek the assistance of former
President Mahama to assert his influence on judges and the police to either twist
justice in his favour or to threaten Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his overwhelming
number of supporters forming about 95% of the Kumawuman subjects?


Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has no right, or no royal prerogative, to meddle in Kumawuman
affairs let alone, their chieftaincy dispute, to the point of imposing his favourite
puppet royal on Kumawuman as their paramount chief. Therefore, people should not be
deceived into thinking that since Otumfuo has imposed Dr Yaw Sarfo on Kumawuman as
their Omanhene, there is no any further disputation over who is the eligible royal to
rule Kumawu – problem solved! No!!!


The selection, election, and gazetting of Dr Yaw Sarfo as Kumawuhene going by the
stool name Barima Sarfo Tweneboa Kodua are full of skeletons in the closet, the
stench of which will in the coming months knock him off the throne he is illegally
occupying. Subsequently, the few irrational supporters of his who are threatening to
cause mayhem had better learn their lesson right from this hour or today before it
becomes had I known to them but which is said to be always at last.


There is a time and a season for everything according as written in Ecclesiastes
3:1-8. Where are President John Dramani Mahama and COP Nathan Kofi Boakye on whom
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II relied so massively to perpetrate and perpetuate his
illegalities against the Kumawu Ananangya royal family and especially, against Barima
Tweneboa Kodua V and the entire Kumawuman subjects?


The practise of injustice has no more space in this current era of hope, justice for
all, and the respect for the dignity of every Ghanaian as a human being irrespective
of their status in the country.


Once more, I extend my condolences to the bereaved family of the late Nana Okyere
Krapa II, the Kumawu Akyempemhene.


Nana Okyere Krapa II, “Damirifa due. Due, due ne amanehunu. Nana, nante yie”


Rockson Adofo

(Written on Thursday, 9 February 2017)