When is the Kumawu chieftaincy dispute getting resolved, some local tongues have started wagging? Some Kumawuman citizens have concluded that the unnecessary length of time being taken to resolve the case is an affront to their intelligence. Others are of the opinion that the ongoing tactical delay is a calculated plan intended to tip the balance in favour of Kumawuhemaa. A few are those that are questioning the credibility of the godly predictions as may have been revealed in my prophetic writings. All these various groups are right to think the way they do as the long duration taken to resolving the issue is far way out of rationality.

Kumawuhemaa is as invigorated and boisterous as she has never been. She is now trumpeting over the hills and mountains how her much hyped relationship with Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is working miraculously in her favour according as she had anticipated. Anyway, I don't blame her for whatever she does or says. I will lay the blame on the head and at the doorstep of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II for allowing his dismal sexual relationship with the queen to take precedence over the interest of the suffering Kumawuman citizens. How does one come to conclude that Kumawuhemaa is having an affair with the most powerful son of the Asanteman soil? The queen herself has been proclaiming it without the least shudder but full gaiety.

She has of late confided in some people that Otumfuo has strenuously worked to get the government to initiate the provision of treated water for Kumawuman. According to her, he had done this to ameliorate her standing in the eyes of Kumawuman citizens. This, she thinks, will pave the way for the inhabitants of Kumawuman to embrace whoever she chooses as Kumawuhene. I would be stupid to underestimate the tenacity of Kumawuhemaa to ensuring the throne remains permanently with her Ankaase royal family if God had not revealed some secrets to me. She is availing herself of any least opportunity that she thinks can do the trick. But try as she does, she will fail and fail sorrowfully, for that God has assured me.

Asantehene's foot-dragging; actions and inactions as exhibited so far are not being helpful to the needs of Kumawuman. He has the solution to the dispute in hand yet he is making fools of the Kumawuman people and especially, the Ananangyas and Odumases by pretending the solution is light years away. If he was not the boyfriend or the sexual soul mate of Kumawuhemaa as she asserts with pride, without eyebrows raised, the case would long have been resolved. Oh what a conflict of interest! Why has the queen not reported back to Asantehene for all these weeks when charged to consult with her relatives on the possibility of handing the throne over to the Ananangyas/Odumases? The consultation and reporting back should not have taken more than a week but it is into its ten weeks as at writing without any sign of the queen getting back to Otumfuo. Is she not doing the same as when the "Ntamkese" was invoked on her and she requested to be allowed to consult with "abrewa" before announcing her decision of whether or not she would counteract the oath (Ntamkese)? For almost three years now, Asantehene has not bothered to compel her to declare her position on the Great oath. She is doing the same thing again on the issue of consulting with her family with the view to handing over the throne to the Ananangyas/Odumases as directed by Otumfuo. This in any sensible person's opinion wouldn't happen if Otumfuo wasn't the queen's boyfriend as she goes about saying without fear or shame.

The authority that Asantehene wields in the case lies with the application of the invoked "Ntamkese" The one and only effective solution to the problem as envisaged by man is the hearing of the invoked "Ntamkese" To look for any solution elsewhere will be calling for the display of abysmal ignorance by the seeker. Will Asantehene be truthful in finding solution to the Kumawuman chieftaincy problem by listening to his head but not the sexual desires of his heart? Who on earth will sit or stand nonchalant with a stick in hand while being attacked by a crazy rabies-infected dog? Nobody in their right senses will do that I should think. Is this not similar to Asantehene combing for a solution to the Kumawuman chieftaincy case as though searching for a needle in a haystack when the solution is rather conspicuously sitting in his hands?

For how long will Asantehene deceive himself? For how long will he allow his integrity to be questioned for dubious reasons - extra marital affair? Anyway, God still stands by His decision in favour of the Ananangyas/Odumases as has variously been written about regardless of what Asantehene or the Kumawuhemaa does.

The Ananangyas/Odumases are to keep faith with God. But they are not to sit on their lap, twirling their finger in expectation of the throne coming to them in a manna-like way as it was in the days of Nana Moses. They are to get on their feet and be doing as is required of a warrior. Kumawuhemaa should cease being absurdly greedy as she may soon regret for her untoward acts of greediness same as did the dog that lost its sumptuous bone to its own shadow in that fast flowing river. A word to the wise is sufficient.

John Fosu