Kumawu Chieftaincy Dispute with the Unending Associated

Kumawu Chieftaincy Dispute with the Unending Associated Judicial Cor ruption is a Blemish on Ghana’s Im age – a Judge is Corrupting Herself

A very reliable source of information emerging from Kumawu queen’s (Nana Abenaa Serwaah Amponsah) camp indicates that she has gone to see the Judge, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, the judge who will be presiding over the case the police have preferred against some arrested people following the police cum military assaults on some people and mourners at Kumawu-Bodomase on Thursday, 16 February 2017.

It had previously been made known to the Ghanaian public and the world that some police and military personnel acting on instructions from unknown persons, but surely, members of the NPP government with the Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah, the personal friend of Dr Yaw Sarfo, the alleged Kumawuhene Barima Sarfo Tweneboa, stormed Kumawu-Bodomase to assault Kumawuhene Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his elders and the innocent people of Bodomase on 16 February 2017.

Subsequently, the security personnel achieved their objective of not only disrupting the late Kumawu Akyempemhene Nana Okyere Krapa II’s funeral but also, inflicted brutalities on Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his sub-chiefs and his large retinue of supporting mourners in procession to the funeral ground where the late Nana Okyere Krapa II’s body was lying in state to pay him their last departing respect in line with Akan tradition.

In the process of their illegal assault on the people, some of the security personnel ended up wounded from what was likely the result of friendly fire on them concluding from evidential video postings on the YouTube.

Following their assault on the people, they went ahead to arrest Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and other suspected people whose names have been listed and passed on to them by the queen of Kumawu for reasons only known to her.

The arrested and bailed persons with those the police claim to be at large will be arraigned on Tuesday, 4 April 2017 before Justice Lydia Osei Marfo in Kumasi.

From the information I have gathered as coming from the queen’s camp, it has been agreed that the judge will imprison the alleged culprits to satisfy the yearned for objective of the queen of Kumawu, Dr Yaw Sarfo, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and all those conspiring with them to twist justice in their bid to perpetrate and perpetuate injustice in their attempts to rob the resources and the people of Kumawuman in a broad daylight.

Whatever advance information, criminal as they often are, that have emerged from the Kumawu queen’s (Kumawuhemaa) camp has come to pass exactly as they emerge. Subsequently, I am not treating this information lightly but with all the seriousness it deserves.

If the queen has had contact with the judge as it has emerged which I believe she has, then the judge had better recuse herself as her action and the verdict she will declare in favour of the police as agreed with Kumawuhemaa will be seen as prejudicial and bordering on conflict of interest for having probably been influenced.

For the attention of the judge, I have already informed the Amnesty International and the Petition Team of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Surely, they will have their lawyer there on 4 April 2017.

In my quest to guarantee the poor and the needy their human rights which are often trampled upon in Ghana owing to the judges in Ghana having that criminal and absurd fondness for selling justice to the highest bidder even though such bidders may be the otherwise guilty parties, I decided to get the Amnesty International and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva involved.

This Kumawu chieftaincy case will take international dimension as I would not mind getting other international organizations and governments informed of how our so-called democratic governments condone and connive with others to use the government security personal and apparatus to suppress and oppress innocent persons to deprive them of their human rights, all in their bid to achieve their selfish interests.

We shall see how the judge decides the case on Tuesday, 4 April 2017. So, the judicial corruption in Ghana knows no bounds and cannot be stopped even under the much touted saviour-like government of the incorruptible His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo?

I am not being confrontational but I shall not sit on my arse doing nothing when judicial and institutional corruptions ramify in Ghana like swarm of bees to the detriment of the poor and the needy.

Why did the police go to Kumawu-Bodomase in the first place? Who sent them there? Is it their right to involve themselves in chieftaincy affairs or disputes with the aim of propping the position of one rival chief over the other? Did they receive any court warrant or order to proceed to Kumawu-Bodomase to effect their intent of blocking Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his sub-chiefs from attending the funeral of their father and colleague sub-chief?

The judge had better look at the case from a broader perspective but if she allows her selfish interest to cloud her view and professionalism, then she will have herself to blame for any concomitant reactions either local or international.

Rockson Adofo

(Written on Sunday, 26 March 2017)