'Bawku mediation process flawed, ineffective' – Nayiri

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 12 hours ago

##WHERE IS BAWUMIA!!! WHY LEAVE THE JOB OF OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP TO AFENYO MARKIN?????????
BAWUMIA MUST FLEX HIS MUSCLES!!! THE COUNTRY IS HEADING BACK TO THE AFRC/ PNDC STONE AGE NKWASEASEM. YOU ARE THE OPPOSITION LEADER, B ...
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##WHERE IS BAWUMIA!!! WHY LEAVE THE JOB OF OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP TO AFENYO MARKIN?????????
BAWUMIA MUST FLEX HIS MUSCLES!!! THE COUNTRY IS HEADING BACK TO THE AFRC/ PNDC STONE AGE NKWASEASEM. YOU ARE THE OPPOSITION LEADER, BE A MAN AND SHOW LEADERSHIP. RISE UP AND DEFEND THE COUNTRY. EMULATE THE BLACK LADY. KEMI BADENOCH, WHO IS LEADING THE OPPOSITION PARTY IN BRITAIN!! . YOU ARE SHOWING SIGNS IF BEING TOO WEAK!! THE ECONOMY IS IN DISARRAY!! WHERE ARE YOUR TOWN HALL LECTURES???????? WHY CANT YOU SET HARDER QUESTIONS FOR THESE NDC INCOMPETENT FOOLS TO ANSWER????
YOU ARE BECOMING TOO SOFT AND BECAUSE OF THIS, NDC IS MAKING SILLY ARRESTS. BAWUMIA, PLEASE RISE UP AND SAVE THE COUNTRY. GHANA IS BEING RIDICULED WORLDWIDE AS BEING UNCIVILIZED!! RISE UP BAWUMIA AND RESTORE OUR DIGNITY. SOME OF US ARE REALLY DETERMINED TO SPEAK UP AND DEFEND GHANA WITHOUT ENTERTAINING ANY FEAR, THREAT, OR ACTS OF SILLY INTIMIDATION FROM THESE NDC STONE AGE FOOLS!!
LONG LIVE ABRONYE!! LONG LIVE NPP!!!
FREE ABRONYE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dr Mumbi Seraki 12 hours ago

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.........for instance 15 tramadol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.........for instance 15 tramadol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.
The Motherland 10 hours ago

Folks, this strange genome of orangutan...species MUMBI SERAKI... has just teleported from the stone age.

Folks, this strange genome of orangutan...species MUMBI SERAKI... has just teleported from the stone age.
Matilda 12 hours ago

So you don't know where Bawumia is? He is busily washing his anus with a jihadist urine

So you don't know where Bawumia is? He is busily washing his anus with a jihadist urine
Joe cudjoe 12 hours ago

Bawumia your chief again oooooo.

Bawumia your chief again oooooo.
Chieftaincy is primitive 12 hours ago

Useless chief. Animal. So you are the bastard formenting trouble over there. Your face resembles a certain ugly animal in the bush. If you don't agree with the Asantehene go and continue fighting. Useless chief. You are ma ...
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Useless chief. Animal. So you are the bastard formenting trouble over there. Your face resembles a certain ugly animal in the bush. If you don't agree with the Asantehene go and continue fighting. Useless chief. You are mad
Nana Kwaku 11 hours ago

Otumfuo Asantehene shd henceforth not accept any mediation request from these Northerners, he shd allow them to go ahead with their wars. Who said Asantes don't have internal conflicts,but they are prepared to forgive each ot ...
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Otumfuo Asantehene shd henceforth not accept any mediation request from these Northerners, he shd allow them to go ahead with their wars. Who said Asantes don't have internal conflicts,but they are prepared to forgive each other whenever such issues arise. Why can't Northerners learn how to forgive, they always allow every little conflict to fester and grow into wars.
Abraham Atta 6 hours ago

Is your ashawo moda with rotten puccc who’s fool. You this bastard, a product from a rotten one night stand. A pig like you.

Is your ashawo moda with rotten puccc who’s fool. You this bastard, a product from a rotten one night stand. A pig like you.
My views 12 hours ago

What is you being right or the benefi of you being a chief brings to the innocent people who are killed.
We carry all the Muslims big names but very wicked people.

What is you being right or the benefi of you being a chief brings to the innocent people who are killed.
We carry all the Muslims big names but very wicked people.
DDT 11 hours ago

Instead of fighting for development, they are fighting each other. What have you guys achieved for soo many years after killing each other? You don't need Asantehene mediation to stop fighting because you are not animals unle ...
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Instead of fighting for development, they are fighting each other. What have you guys achieved for soo many years after killing each other? You don't need Asantehene mediation to stop fighting because you are not animals unless you want Ghanaians to believe so. You are not the only region in Ghana with different tribes and believe but the question is, why always the Northeners ? You guys should use your brains for once and preserved your dignity.

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Xerox 11 hours ago

Yes flawed like his kokonte ugly face. Hopeless creature

Yes flawed like his kokonte ugly face. Hopeless creature
john 10 hours ago

idiot of a chief and why should you use this title for a village paramount chief like this one.Its obvious you dont like peace but as you fight kindly tell your children not to troop to kumasi for a decent life. They are maki ...
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idiot of a chief and why should you use this title for a village paramount chief like this one.Its obvious you dont like peace but as you fight kindly tell your children not to troop to kumasi for a decent life. They are making kumasi dirty like the north.They should stay in the north and kill themselves.
Abraham Atta 6 hours ago

You this pig, respect elders. I don’t blame you, I blame the rotten wowan you called your mother who after numerous one night stand from different men gave birth to a bastard like you. Go and ask your mother who your usel ...
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You this pig, respect elders. I don’t blame you, I blame the rotten wowan you called your mother who after numerous one night stand from different men gave birth to a bastard like you. Go and ask your mother who your useless father is, she doesn’t know. Is Abuguragoat the drunkard or that stupid Kumasi chief you are referring to. Stupid pig
Mohammed Assalaf 9 hours ago

Chieftaincy today is no longer treated as an institution rooted in history, custom, and tradition. It has been reduced to one of government recognition and legal manipulation. Ghana appears to be the only place where politici ...
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Chieftaincy today is no longer treated as an institution rooted in history, custom, and tradition. It has been reduced to one of government recognition and legal manipulation. Ghana appears to be the only place where politicians enact laws such as PNDCL 75 to recognize a person as chief even when such a person is unable to trace lineage in Bawku for the past 100 years.
The so called mediation process was driven by political interests rather than historical truth. This is deeply troubling. Political actors are steadily eroding customs and traditions. A process meant for mediation has somehow transformed a mediator into a chief justice. This raises serious questions. For over 240 years, the Nayiri installed chiefs for Bawku. This long standing practice has suddenly been halted. Chiefs now appear to be installed through government directives. This development disregards history, custom, and tradition. It forces one to ask a basic question. Who founded Bawku?
Successive political leaders have failed to provide evidence to support their claims. Nana Addo failed to produce the alleged Supreme Court ruling. John Mahama also failed to produce it. Mahama Ayariga, Cletus Avoka and other celebrated legal minds have not produced it either, also the upper east regional house of chiefs failed to produce it after it was written to them to provide it. Yet the Asantehene appears to be misled into believing the Supreme Court brought finality to the dispute. This situation is unacceptable. If such a ruling exists, it should be produced openly to settle the matter. The refusal or inability to do so suggests a lack of commitment to truth.
We now live in a society where truth is increasingly scarce. Carefully rehearsed falsehoods and half truths are presented as facts. This reality is deeply disappointing. It challenges the belief many held about integrity among leaders and institutions.
A political campaign promise appears fulfilled. The question remains whether this approach is sustainable. History does not disappear because of political convenience. The period from 1720 to 1981 spans 260 years. Yet recent arguments suggest 40 years outweighs 260 years. This defies logic, history, and reason.
Chieftaincy should rest on lineage, history, and tradition. When politics overrides these foundations, the institution loses its meaning and legitimacy.
Mohammed Assalaf 9 hours ago

GENESIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION IN BAWKU
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Back in history,24th February, 1966, Ghana's first President H.E Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown by the ...
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GENESIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION IN BAWKU
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Back in history,24th February, 1966, Ghana's first President H.E Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown by the military under National Liberation Council. This was after the President went on a mission to Hannoi in Vietnam.

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is the genesis of almost all the Chieftaincy disputes across the country today and the sole originator of the needless conflict in Bawku. Before the coming of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mamprusi and Kusaasi were living in harmony and life in Bawku was calm and peaceful.

It all started during the Pre Independence struggle. This was a time when Chiefs were actively involved in politics. In 1954, the pioneer Northern politicians including; Kabachiwura J.A Braimah of Gonja, Tolon-Naa Yakubu Talli of Dagbon, Kpee-Naa Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia of Mamprugu, Chief S.D Dombo, Adam Amandi, Imoro Salifu, et al formed the Northern People's Party (NPP).

Kpea-Naa Mumuni Bawumia was made an interim Chairman of the NPP and later on Vice Chairman with Chief S.D Dombo as the Chairman. Kpee-Naa Mumuni Bawumia was also the Secretary to the Nayiri, Naa Sheriga Abdulai father of the reigning Nayiri i.e Naa Bohagu Abdulai Mahami Sheriga.

The Nayiri Naa Sheriga Abdulai was made a patron of the NPP. The Nayiri’s support for the NPP and refusal to support Nkrumah's CPP infuriated Kwame Nkrumah. All attempts by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to make the Nayiri support his CPP proved futile. The Nayiri said he can't betray his own sons to support Kwame Nkrumah's CPP.

This was an era when politics was unlike today's politics. In those days, it was the Chiefs that in their wisdom, decided the party they wanted their subjects to vote. Before the election, the King will call all his Chiefs and tell them the party he wants them to vote for. The Chiefs will inturn relay same to all their subjects, and no one dare votes otherwise. This explains why Kwame Nkrumah was bent on getting the Nayiri on his side.

The then Bawku-Naaba was Bawku-Naa Saa (Wuni Bugri), the 12th Bawku-Naaba. Considering the vast nature of the Bawku Traditional area and the fact that the Bawku-Naaba was in support of his father the Nayiri’s choice, Kwame Nkrumah devised a mechanism to woe supporters of the CPP within the Bawku traditional area and that marked the genesis of the Bawku conflict. After the demise of Bawku-Naa Saa in 1956, the Nayiri Naa Sheriga Abdulai enskined Bawku-Naa Salma Yirimeya as the 13th Bawku-Naa in 1957.

The Azoka family who are not kusaasis but are of Yaanga extraction were peacefully living with the Yirimeya family after arriving in Bawku in the early 1940s. Kwame Nkrumah in his quest to woe party supporters made Abugrago Azoka, father of Abugrago Aninchema the CPP party Chairman of Bawku and this didn't go down well with the Bawku-Naaba since the norm was that it is the Chief that decides the party for his subjects. This brought some kind of friction between the Azoka family and the Bawku-Naaba. The Azoka family with the support of some few insubordinate Kusaasis started purporting Abugrago Azoka as a Bawku-Naaba. A terrain that started like a joke got worse because it gained government endorsement simply because the person involved was the Chairman of the party in power. Nkrumah had played his card and went for none other than the ungrateful Azoka. Azoka immediately forgot the benovelence of Naa Yirimea who took him in when he arrived in Bawku and was willing to stab Bawku-Naba Yirimea in the back.

The friction between the Bawku-Naa Salma Yirimeya the 13th Bawku-Naaba and Abugrago Azoka got intense and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in his quest to legitimise his illegality set up the Opoku Afari Committee to look into the issue. The committee was chaired by S. D Opoku-Afari, an ardent CPP supporter planted to legitimize Nkrumah’s illegality. This overtly partisan investigator was used to slander and destroy the Nayiri and Mamprugu. Other members of the committee were Nana Yaw Agyemang, the Dormaahene and Lure Kanton III, the Tumu Koro, both members of the CPP. The contributions of the Dormaahene and Tumu Koro were a great disservice to African tradition. Instead of protecting the integrity of the very African heritage which brought them to prominence, they responded to their stomachs, kept their tails between their thighs and succumbed to the wishes of an anti traditional African Tyrant.

Prior to the 1956 elections, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was on record to have said on several rally grounds that, "Chiefs will run and leave their sandals" and this was evidenced as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah went on a deskinment/destoolment spree by deskining/destooling Chiefs across the country who never supported the CPP.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah even attempted deskining no other person than the Nayiri himself but for the divine intervention of Kpee-Naa Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, then secretary to the Nayiri who had crossed carpet to the CPP.

Bawku-Naa Salma Yirimeya the 13th Bawku-Naaba was subsequently exiled by the Dr. Kwame Nkrumah CPP government till his demise in exile in 1962.

Chieftaincy, a symbol of African civilisation which successfully withstood the affront of colonialism and WHITE IMPERIALISM were being destroyed by Chiefs under the pressure of a BLACK IMPERIALIST. Thanks to the NLC, the status of the revered Chieftaincy institution was restored. All the Chiefs that were deskined/destooled by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah across the country were restored to their original position.

In the Mamprugu kingdom, the Chiefs that were deskined by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah were;
1. Chief of Bawku
2. Chief of Nangodi
3. Chief of Pusiga
4. Chief of Zebila
5. Chief of Tempani
6. Chief of Tanga
7. Chief of Gagbiri
8. Chief of Binduri
9. Chief of Kugri
10. Chief of Zongoyiri
11. Chief of Sinebaga
12. Chief of Binaba
13. Chief of Worikambo
14. Chief of Teshie
15. Chief of Kulungugu
16. Chief of Bugri
17. Chief of Kusanaba

All the aforementioned Chiefs were deskined by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and planted with political Chiefs on the false assertion that they have deskined Mamprusis and enskined Kusaasis. Meanwhile some of the deskined Chiefs were Kusaasi and this was clear proof of a political agenda at play and had nothing whatsoever to do with Mamprusi verse Kusaasi.

Where ever Dr. Kwame Nkrumah may be today, he will still be served his own share of the atrocities and the loss of innocent lives at Bawku as a result of the needless conflict he created due to his parochial interest. The Azoka family came and met Bawku Chieftaincy and by then Bawku already had 12 Chiefs starting from the mid 17th century. They came at a time Mamprusis and Kusaasis were living peacefully.

Kwame Nkrumah's Preventive Detention Act was passed purposely for Mamprusi in Bawku and he used this act to jail Mamprusi without trial. Many of the Mamprusi that were jailed by Kwame Nkrumah without trial were only released after his overthrow on February 24th 1966. The Nayiri Naa Sheriga Abdulai always maintained that the colonial officers came and met Mamprugu and they went and left it same way Kwame Nkrumah have come to meet Mamprugu and he will go and leave Mamprugu. Verily, Naa Sheriga Abdulai lived to witness the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah in 1966 before h joined his ancestors later that year.

We are by this calling on all true and well meaning Kusaasi to embrace peace and realise that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah used our fathers and forefathers for his parochial interest and we are now paying a debt we have absolutely no idea how it was incurred.

Thank you.
Attached is the National Liberation Council Decree (NLCD112) and picture of how Kwame Nkrumah received the news of his overthrow.Another attached is a list of the Chiefs who have ruled Bawku since inception(All were Mamprusi Chiefs enskined by the Nayiri)
If you ever wondered why some Ghanaians were jubilating over the overthrow of Nkrumah, these were part of the reasons.

From all these above,You can make these deductions and many more:

1.Chieftaincy started in Bawku by the Mamprusi long ago even before the arrival of the Azoka family in Bawku

2.The Bawku conflict was mechanised by Dr Kwame Nkrumah for his political interest.Why the Chiefs who were deskined/destooled by Nkrumah were reskined/restooled but the Bawku Chief(A Mamprusi) exiled till his demise?

3.The Bawku Chieftaincy which is supposed to be handled traditionally is been manipulated by politicians(both npp and ndc) for their own gains.

4.The Nkrumah imposed chief for Bawku was the only first Non-Mamprusi and for that matter a non-royal family who attempted to occupy the Bawku skin,going against customs and traditions in Chieftaincy.

5.Before the emergence of this Azoka family(Whos was not even a Kusasi but a Yaanga man),Mamprusi,Kusasi,Bissa etc were all living peacefully together with the Mamprusi been the Chiefs.

6.The Azoko family who initiated all these were given asylum and protection by the Mamprusi Royals when they first arrived in Bawku.
SAMUEL 9 hours ago

FOOLISH SMELLING CHIF LIKE YOU WHO DOES NOT WANT PEACE IN GHANA, MAMPRUSI CAN NOT RULE BAWKU WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. STUPID CHIEF

FOOLISH SMELLING CHIF LIKE YOU WHO DOES NOT WANT PEACE IN GHANA, MAMPRUSI CAN NOT RULE BAWKU WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. STUPID CHIEF
Abraham Atta 6 hours ago

Your mother rotten . A bastard like you. A product of one night stand from an ashawo like your moda. A pig like you. Tell your drunkard Abugurogoat with smelling mouth like Agbogbolosis gutter. Foolish animal like you. Tell ...
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Your mother rotten . A bastard like you. A product of one night stand from an ashawo like your moda. A pig like you. Tell your drunkard Abugurogoat with smelling mouth like Agbogbolosis gutter. Foolish animal like you. Tell us the meaning of Kusasi? That’s why your married woman in Kumasi here are sleeping with other men and they are catching them. Same way with your mother and that’s why her rotten vagina produced you
Abraham Atta 6 hours ago

Your mother rotten . A bastard like you. A product of one night stand from an ashawo like your moda. A pig like you. Tell your drunkard Abugurogoat with smelling mouth like Agbogbolosis gutter. Foolish animal like you. Tell ...
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Your mother rotten . A bastard like you. A product of one night stand from an ashawo like your moda. A pig like you. Tell your drunkard Abugurogoat with smelling mouth like Agbogbolosis gutter. Foolish animal like you. Tell us the meaning of Kusasi? That’s why your married woman in Kumasi here are sleeping with other men and they are catching them. Same way with your mother and that’s why her rotten vagina produced you
12345 9 hours ago

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Yakubu 6 hours ago

Nayiri ,long live Nayiri , you want and wish that PEACE prevailed and what Otumfuo did couldn't achieve it, so, in your view Nayiri, how can PEACE be achieved at the place for killings etcetera etcetera etcetera be stopped ...
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Nayiri ,long live Nayiri , you want and wish that PEACE prevailed and what Otumfuo did couldn't achieve it, so, in your view Nayiri, how can PEACE be achieved at the place for killings etcetera etcetera etcetera be stopped Help us find peace there
Nana 6 hours ago

I don’t blame this senseless old man but rather the very energetic youth who has abandoned their conscience

I don’t blame this senseless old man but rather the very energetic youth who has abandoned their conscience
Abraham Atta 6 hours ago

You this pig, respect elders. I don’t blame you, I blame the rotten wowan you called your mother who after numerous one night stand from different men gave birth to a bastard like you. Go and ask your mother who your useles ...
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You this pig, respect elders. I don’t blame you, I blame the rotten wowan you called your mother who after numerous one night stand from different men gave birth to a bastard like you. Go and ask your mother who your useless father is, she doesn’t know. Is your useless Kumasi thief called Kofi Duah the drunkard or that stupid Kumasi chief you are referring to. Stupid pig

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