The good old saying goes, "the wages of sin is death", while the new saying goes, "the greedy person is always overcome with shame and disgrace". The combination of both adages is likely to be the portion of the most insolent, most clueless, most culturally and historically-deficient, and the greediest queen ever known in the annals of Kumawuman royalty. One always feels ashamed to relate to a person in authority who loses their credibility by acting rapaciously stupid. I have the feeling that most of Kumawuman citizens cringe with fear and suffer the sensational feeling of a chill up their spine at the mention of the name of their sitting paramount queen. Some however, do suffer cold or hot flashes that lead to one perspiring profusely with sweat dripping off their cheek like beads. Others are known to bury their head in their palm in shame for having such a shameless person as their queen. The queen being economical with the truth but overzealous for ill-gotten wealth and anarchical power has fallen out with many a Kumawuman citizen.

Kumawu, the seat of the Kumawuman paramountcy is comparable to a headless chicken that flaps and bumps against objects in all directions. The town has been left without any decent leader to provide a rudder for its traditional affairs since the passing of Barimah Asumadu Sakyi II, two years ago. The person purporting to ensure interim, but actually indecent leadership is the Krontihene. He is another corrupt entity who matches the insensitiveness and greediness of the late Barimah Asumadu Sakyi II and the queen inch by inch, and foot by foot. This "Tikenenkenen" is not only a disgrace to Kumawuman but also, to the very womb that conceived and carried him for the nine months gestation. The ensemble of the traditional leaders is there only to seek and protect their selfish interests. This explains why Kumawu is now that decrepit. I want both the queen and the Krontihene out, should my views carry any weight. But who am I, to tell the Ananangyas and the Odumases what to do? I can only express my views like any other person living in a democratically civilized society. The final decision rests with the affected families.

The searchlight of my "traka system" which marks the trace activity of the queen is tracing her to Canada at the moment. What is she doing there, one may wish to know? I wish she is not running away from the public narration of the Kumawuman royalty history that will surely establish her origin as a descendant of "Ayo". Who then is this Ayo, one may ask? Ayo was a very beautiful girl of Northern origin who had been plucked off her family and destined for sale as a slave in those days. For further information on Ayo finding herself in Kumawu and her descendants' dubious ascendancy to the Kumawuman paramount throne, one should read my previous write-ups on the Kumawuman chieftaincy disputation. The queen can run but she cannot hide. And as the American President Ronald Reagan used to say, "You ain't seen nothing yet" (instead of you haven't seen anything yet"). The queen will suffer further tribulations the more she holds onto her selfish claim to the Kumawuman paramount throne. Kumawuman is in limbo of waiting for the queen's response to the invocation of the "Asantehene's Ntamkese" (Asantehene's Great Oath) on her by Nana Nti Kwakye, the Head of the Ananangya royal family. The last time I heard, she had told friends she was not going to challenge the oath. This goes to tell how desperate she is to avoid washing her inferior dirty historical linen in public. I wish she had taken up the gauntlet.

Kumawuman cannot continue to waste away for the fact of not having any credible paramount chief. Either the queen realises her stupidity and apologises, then relinquish her false claim to the throne, or, she prepares for the public witnessing of the narration of the Kumawman royalty history. Now that her ray of hope found in Wurukye has been quenched for lack of vitality, her only option is to throw in the towel. She should not assume that her absence from Ghana can be a further trick to delaying the installation of the people's choice of chief from the Ananangya royal family. As her employee Akua Wurukye failed in her fabricated ploys, tracks and presumptions, so will it be with her. As the heart of God has decided, there is no turning back, much the same way as "when the die is cast, there is no turning back".

I pray the Canadians will accept her and keep her as one of their own. She should be thankful to them for having awarded her a Canadian citizenship and are also not ready to do her Mobutu Sese Seko. What happened to this disgraceful, most corrupt and most myopic curious personality? Mobutu was the President of Zaire, the current Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR. Congo). He saw and took Zaire and the wealth therein as his and his only. He siphoned his country's money into his private accounts in Switzerland. He purchased not ordinary mansions but Chateaux in Europe. He had Châteaux in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, only but to mention a few. In the end, when his country was being overrun by the Laurent Kabila's rebels to kick him out of power, he was recuperating in Biarritz, France, in one of his fantabulous Chateaux, from a prostate cancer operation underwent in Switzerland. Unfortunately for him, he started suffering complications and had wanted to proceed to Switzerland to consult his doctors who had conducted the surgical operation. Guess what, the Swiss government denied him entry to Switzerland but rather advised him to proceed to Zaire to sort out the problem of the ongoing war being waged by Kabila. He went to Zaire, spent a week or two and returned to France. His second attempt to go to Switzerland to see his doctors was also rebuffed. He then returned to Zaire from France. When he decided to come back to Europe to see his doctors as his health was deteriorating faster than expected, he was categorically denied access not only to Switzerland but also France. No country was ready to accept him. He finally went to Morocco where he died three weeks later and was buried like a dog without the usual funfair burial befitting an African Head of State. It serves this thief right! Will the queen encounter a similar fate? Such is the end of greedy people who know no shame. I wish the Canadians had chased her out same as done to Mobutu Sese Seko who thought tomorrow would never come and so fooled about while the shine shone.

In early January this year, some recalcitrant Zongo NDC activists went on rampage in Kumawu. They smashed NPP billboards and defaced or took down memorial signposts from people's graves. This led to a tension and a fierce fight between the rest of the town and anyone of Northern descent deemed as a Zongo person. Though a great number of policemen did attend from Effiduase, Ejisu and Kumasi, it took them three days to calm down tempers that had flared. It then took the intervention of a few intelligent people to avert the town from plunging into a total no-go war zone. In the end, the Zongo boys had said there was, and still no chief in the town so they will do as they wish. They ignored the queen's summons to them intended for not only investigating the cause of their deplorable action but also, finding a common ground where the Zongos and the Asantes can live side by side in peace, with a snub. Who is this disgraced queen to call them to the palace to reprimand them as rumoured, they said? This incident goes to tell how Kumawuman, especially Kumawu, is sitting on a ticking time bomb ready to explode at any time should the issue of succession to Barimah Asumadu Sakyi II not resolved sooner.

The queen sojourning in Toronto, Canada, is to be seen as a respite but not any escape from confronting the Ananagyas and the Odumases. Some are of the opinion that travelling outside the country in time that the noose is tightening up on her neck is an indication of playing her usual delay tactics. But that as it may, let it be known to her that her dirty ploys will no longer stick. She had better go home. My reliable source of information tells that she is in Canada to attend the graduation of her children from various Universities or schools. She has no choice but to give up the paramount throne to the Ananangyas. She is cornered by her own greediness. No more escape route as the only emergency exit left for her egress is to relinquish her false but intransigent claim to the throne. The Ananangyas and the Odumase royals are not slaves after all. The slaves are the queen and her ......... royals.

Forward ever, backward never! John Fosu is back to deliver the killer blow. Until the Kumawuman chieftaincy affairs are resolved, he will never rest.

John Fosu