Asantehene Helps Kumawuhemaa to Cause Financial Loss to Kumawuman

Has the year 2011 started badly for Kumawuman? Everyone always enters a New Year

armed to the teeth with prosperous resolutions, whether they are achievable or not.

Kumawuman entered 2011 hoping to secure a solution to their near four-year

chieftaincy disputation. They are also of the hope that the much talked about water

project to secure them potable tap water will earnestly take off. It is also their

wish to secure jobs for the inhabitants most of whom, especially the youth, have

taken to excessive drinking. As the devil finds work for the idle hand, the youths

are wasting their energy and precious time idling about "Akpeteshi" bars due to the

absence of work in the area. Kumawu, once a blooming town and vivacious by night is

now almost a cemetery, deserted and quiet. Congregation of people at the town centre

by night is no longer observable when one visits Kumawu. All this is the evil work

of the myopic traditional leadership in place by the Kumawuhemaa and her Ankaase

family.

Kumawuhemaa, the shameless self-acclaimed iron-lady with her corrupt Krontihene is

still as callous, short-sighted and mired in her waywardness as she has always been.

Though she is taking a temporary refuge or respite in Canada, she is still issuing

instructions to the Kontrihene to continue to plunder Kumawuman as much as they can.

They are bent on depleting Kumawuman of her wealth by way of selling off and

pocketing whatever they can lay hands on. The latest information reaching me

indicates that Krontrihene and Okyeame Koduah acting upon the instructions of the

queen have sold a Kumawuman oil palm plantation situated at Atakrom near

Okaekrom/Nyanfa in the Asokore area. The trio have pocketed the money realised from

the sale of the palm trees though the plantation was a Kumawuman property.

The Kontrihene is now far worse than the late Barimah Asumadu Sakyi II when it comes

to illegally enriching oneself by way of selling off State property and pocketing

the proceeds. All the gold dust ("sika futro") in the Kumawu palace is understood to

have been disposed of by Kumawuhemaa in her insatiable pursuit of personal riches.

One wonders why Otumfuo Osei Tutu II continues to allow Kumawuhemaa to steal from

Kumawuman through her illegal activities. Many Kumawuman citizens are dying off out

of utter poverty. As at writing, Kofi Sarpong alias Thousand, the pride of Kumawuman

has passed just last Friday, 14th January 2011. Only last December did John Kwadwo

Nkrumah, alias Okobo, kick the bucket. These are just but two among the hundreds

that die each month in Kumawuman. If there were jobs, these people would have had

money to go to hospital, bought any medical prescription drugs to keep them still

alive. Asantehene as selfish, callous and pretentious as he is has allowed his heart

to rule his head. The blood of these innocent souls will be demanded from him one

day in Heaven or Hell. What at all is preventing him from scheduling the Kumawuman

chieftaincy for Asanteman Council hearing? He rather prefers resorting to absurd

delay tactics to help his girlfriend hold on to power even though she is clutching

onto a threadlike straw.

Agogohene on the other hand has been availing himself of the absence of Kumawuhene

to sell some Kumawuman lands for the benefit of Agogo and himself. He has lately

made an attempt to sell some Kumawuman lands in Kyekyebon near Drobonso in the Afram

Plains. He was fiercely resisted by the progressive members within the Kumawu

Traditional Council who had the tacit support of Kwamanghene.

The dubious Kumawuhemaa has her hand in all ongoing dodgy deals aimed at robbing and

impoverishing Kumawuman. Asantehene had better make a choice as soon as. Either he

puts up or he shuts up. Until when will Kumawuman tolerate his intentional ploy to

see his girlfriend hang on as a useless ruler of Kumawuman while people are dying

from preventable diseases? People are dying from water borne diseases, periodic

cholera outbreaks, sheer poverty and stress. The more I see Asantehene and

Kumawuhemaa with Krontrihene underestimate the intelligence of Kumawuman citizens,

the angrier I become.

This is a year of action so Kumawuman rest assured that all will be well with you

despite how bad the year has begun. May the souls of all the departed ones rest in

perfect peace. May God shower them with his abundant mercies.

John Fosu