Police Have Arrested Kumawuhene Barima Tweneboa Kodua V

The Effiduase Ashanti police have arrested the most famous and popular Kumawuhene

Barima Tweneboa Kodua V yesterday, Thursday 23 February 2017 in the evening. They

have since transferred him to the Kumasi Central police station. As at putting out

this publication, the police have not preferred any charge against him but are surely

going to charge him for what crime nobody knows yet.

The public will recall that armed police-cum-military personnel stormed

Kumawu-Bodomase on Thursday 16 February 2017 with intent to forcibly stop Kumawuhene

Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his sub-chiefs and a retinue of sympathising mourners

from proceeding to the grounds where the late Kumawu Akyempemhene Nana Okyere Krapa

II was laid in state.

The police destroyed his traditional kingly umbrellas as well as that of his

sub-chiefs. The police and the soldiers fired rubber and live bullets as well as tear

gas into the crowd and into the air to disperse the crowd. In the process of

assaulting Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his sub-chiefs and supporting mourners, some

of the security agents as well as the public suffered various degrees of gunshot

wounds and injuries.

The late Kumawu Akyempemhene was one of the sub-chiefs of Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and

Barima’s father by extension of the Ashanti traditional extended family.

The police-cum-military assault on Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his sub-chiefs and

supporters as taken place on Thursday 16 February 2017 could be watched on YouTube

via the underlying links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJqU0S4NR3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpTkhR7mUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPzXWqClZG4

From reliable information reaching me as at 16:00 hours today, the police are

oscillating between charging him with firing a gunshot at the Divisional Police

Commander of Effiduase who is presumed to be on admission to Okomfo Anokye hospital

receiving treatment for gunshot wounds he sustained and an about to be made

fictitious charge(s). From the video evidence of the police-cum-military brutalities

inflicted on Barima Tweneboa Kodua V and his sub-chiefs and supporters, could he have

possessed a fire arm to fire it at anybody? The public must judge it for themselves.

Further to the information, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has sent one of his

Asanteman paramount chiefs from Tepa to the Kumasi Central Police Station where

Barima Tweneboa Kodua V is currently being held for what reason only God knows. Could

he be that order from above scheming for the elimination of Kumawuhene Barima

Tweneboa Kodua V?

Additionally, Kumawuhemaa Nana Abenaa Serwaah Amponsah has chartered a taxi from

Kumawu to Effiduase Police station as at writing for reasons yet unknown to the

public.

Rockson Adofo

(Written on Friday, 24 February 2017)