Nkawkaw Kwahu – The Face of Okwahuman

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• YAA ANANE 10 years ago

  First and foremost, the good people of Nkawkaw should elect a Mayor for this bustring town and see to its development.

  First and foremost, the good people of Nkawkaw should elect a Mayor for this bustring town and see to its development.

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• Gifty 10 years ago

  Good article, Nana Yaa. Happy New Year.

  Good article, Nana Yaa. Happy New Year.

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• Gifty 10 years ago

  Good article, Nana Yaa. Happy New Year.

  Good article, Nana Yaa. Happy New Year.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  The idea of of an elected mayor who should be free from corruption and a person of intergrity and hard working, will elevate Nkawkaw to another level. Obomeng chieftaincy palaver will not make a difference. Nana Yaa has my v ...
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  The idea of of an elected mayor who should be free from corruption and a person of intergrity and hard working, will elevate Nkawkaw to another level. Obomeng chieftaincy palaver will not make a difference. Nana Yaa has my vote to be the mayor of Nkawkaw.

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• JB Mann 10 years ago

  There are DCEs, MCEs etc. I know Nkawkaw is in Kwahu West and has a MCE.
  
  The fact is those DCEs /MCEs are all there for their own selfish interests. There was one person (Mr Agyei Baah aka Shaba) who stood as independent ...
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  There are DCEs, MCEs etc. I know Nkawkaw is in Kwahu West and has a MCE.
  
  The fact is those DCEs /MCEs are all there for their own selfish interests. There was one person (Mr Agyei Baah aka Shaba) who stood as independent and did a lot for the town.
  
  The current MCE is Hon. Alex Somuah Obeng.

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• MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

  JB there are mayors in some urban cities in Ghana. My contention is that we should have elected mayors in every Ghanaian town and city with sizable inhabitants to checkmate those royals,DCE's, and MCE's who don't have the int ...
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  JB there are mayors in some urban cities in Ghana. My contention is that we should have elected mayors in every Ghanaian town and city with sizable inhabitants to checkmate those royals,DCE's, and MCE's who don't have the interests of their communities at heart. Since these mayors are to be elected, not appointed by the executive, they risk being voted out if they are corrupt, and don't have the interests and well being of their communities at heart.
  
  Ahoofe knows what I'm talking about: this is what happens in New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, London, Copenhagen, and other democratic nations. Or we haven't reached there yet?

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• Okponglo Guy 10 years ago

  This is how the parties test their candidates for Constituencies. They appoint MCEs and DCEs for a term and then nominate them as MP candidates during national elections.
  
  Our so-called leaders have hijacked or delayed o ...
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  This is how the parties test their candidates for Constituencies. They appoint MCEs and DCEs for a term and then nominate them as MP candidates during national elections.
  
  Our so-called leaders have hijacked or delayed our development

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• Amoah 10 years ago

  Nice Article
  
  Over years these primitive people of Obomeng claimed that Nkawkaw is their "village"
  Thus every single major issue must be sanctioned by the chief of Obomeng.
  There has been chieftaincy dispute over NK for a ...
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  Nice Article
  
  Over years these primitive people of Obomeng claimed that Nkawkaw is their "village"
  Thus every single major issue must be sanctioned by the chief of Obomeng.
  There has been chieftaincy dispute over NK for a hundred years, and the city haven't had a Chief for over a decade, ever since the death of Nana Aninakwa (Nyame).
  
  Because NK (thats my home town too) has no right to install a chief (but must rather have an (Odikro). Who must must be appointed by the chief of Obomeng.
  
  How can a small town with a single paved road claimed to "own" a bustling commercial city, just because some Sons of the chief went down the mountain to start the settlement?
  
  Every single Kwahu native, does not regard NK as a town you can claimed as "your town".
  
  (NK is my town)..I have done some few things to uplift my town, and I am proud to be from NK
  
  Unless the people of Kwahu changes their primitive colonial attitude and regard NK as "free city"
  to pursued its own destiny, there will never be a genuine development in that city.

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• DICKIUS 10 years ago

  NKAWKAW WILL EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT WHEN THIS LITIGANT INFESTED ELDERS OF OBOMENG STOP THEIR BARBARIC CLAIM OF NKAWKAW AND GIVE PEACE TO AYOKO ROYAL FAMILY OF NKAWKAW TO ENSTOOL THEIR CHIEF. SOON BETTER THINGS WILL COME TO MY ...
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  NKAWKAW WILL EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT WHEN THIS LITIGANT INFESTED ELDERS OF OBOMENG STOP THEIR BARBARIC CLAIM OF NKAWKAW AND GIVE PEACE TO AYOKO ROYAL FAMILY OF NKAWKAW TO ENSTOOL THEIR CHIEF. SOON BETTER THINGS WILL COME TO MY HOMETOWN - NKAWKAW

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• JB Mann 10 years ago

  Amoah, before you start displaying your ignorance, you need to learn more about tradition and history.
  
  In the first place, Nkawkaw has always have an Ohene (not Odikro) but as you correctly wrote must hail from Obomeng. Sa ...
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  Amoah, before you start displaying your ignorance, you need to learn more about tradition and history.
  
  In the first place, Nkawkaw has always have an Ohene (not Odikro) but as you correctly wrote must hail from Obomeng. Sarkodie, Asamoah Kokodie, Aninakwa have all been Nkawkwahenes.
  
  For your information, that land stretching from Obomeng down the mountains to Nkawkaw, Abepowtia, Denkyira, Pankese all belong to the people of Obomeng, and chiefs of those locations come from Obomeng and have their houses there too!
  
  Similary most parts of the land from Nkawkaw on the Accra road ie Mile 97 to Mile 91, belong to the people of Mpraeso. Mpraeso-Amanfrom is what used to called Mile 94.
  
  Obo claims the land down the scarp to around Kwahu-Praso I & II, Suminakese, so that most of the villages there are inhabited TILL TODAY by natives of Obo.
  
  Amoah, not until you change the traditional rules in Ghana, Nkawkaw WILL forever be under Obomeng.
  
  Last, know that the status of Nkawkaw is like that of Kumasi: ask any Ashanti where they come from and youl'll notice that no Ashanti hails from Kumasi, thouht it is the largest and busiest city in that area. That also explains why there is no Kumasehene - because nobody hails from there.

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• amoah 10 years ago

  You seems to know the history of Nkawkaw, since you mentioned some of the old chief and "pretenders".
  
  Sarkodie./Kokodie
  
  So you think they ever lived in the Palace?
  
  Can you enlight me , when this Kokodie was a chief o ...
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  You seems to know the history of Nkawkaw, since you mentioned some of the old chief and "pretenders".
  
  Sarkodie./Kokodie
  
  So you think they ever lived in the Palace?
  
  Can you enlight me , when this Kokodie was a chief of Nkawkaw?
  
  As far as I am concerned, There was Asamoah,then his newphew Aninakwa.
  Both from the Ayoko Clan.
  
  Sarkodie was a pretender (appointed by Obomenghene) thus Odikro.
  Since he did not inherited the stool.
  
  
  
  do

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• JB Mann 10 years ago

  It is not surprising that I know much about Nkawkaw : I was born there and lived part of my life there, before moving to Atibie among others. As I write, my mother still lives there near the Salvation Army.
  
  FYI - 'Kokodie' ...
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  It is not surprising that I know much about Nkawkaw : I was born there and lived part of my life there, before moving to Atibie among others. As I write, my mother still lives there near the Salvation Army.
  
  FYI - 'Kokodie' is only the 'mmrane' of Asamoah, whose children and grandchildren (even befriended his granddaughter) I know very well. Asamoah lived in the palace, behind the Nkawkaw-Dwemu, not far away from the Mpeteaban!
  
  Meanwhile the clan is not Ayoko, but Oyoko
  
  I was pretty angry because you call the people of Kwahu-Obomeng primitive. The only system you can blame is chieftaincy and depreciated tradition in Ghana. The problem facing Kwahu-Obomeng exists in many parts of Ghana, more seriously in the North - where many people have lost their lives because of chieftaincy.

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

  Nana Yaa, Nkawkaw is partly Akyem-Abuakwa, as is also the entire township of Nkwatia, where I schooled at St. Peter's. And so the politics of sub-ethnicity is not as neatly packaged as the author of this article seems to beli ...
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  Nana Yaa, Nkawkaw is partly Akyem-Abuakwa, as is also the entire township of Nkwatia, where I schooled at St. Peter's. And so the politics of sub-ethnicity is not as neatly packaged as the author of this article seems to believe.

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• amoah 10 years ago

  Nkawkaw is partly Akyem Abuakwa"
  
  since when did a town/city became partly of anything?
  
  Having read some few articles from you, I thought you were a learned person.
  
  That was a stupid Remarks

  Nkawkaw is partly Akyem Abuakwa"
  
  since when did a town/city became partly of anything?
  
  Having read some few articles from you, I thought you were a learned person.
  
  That was a stupid Remarks

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• JB Mann 10 years ago

  Mr Okoampah,
  
  You attended Persco, but I come from Atibie and have lived there all my life and can tell you that Nkawkaw is nowhere near Akyem. In fact the closest Kwahu towns to Akyem are Panksese which is about 8Km to Ako ...
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  Mr Okoampah,
  
  You attended Persco, but I come from Atibie and have lived there all my life and can tell you that Nkawkaw is nowhere near Akyem. In fact the closest Kwahu towns to Akyem are Panksese which is about 8Km to Akoasi (Akyem), Jejeti (close to Engyires/Anyinam )
  
  What makes your claims so useless is saying that Nkwatia is also Akyem.
  
  For your information, Nkwatia is surrounded by Obo, Obomeng, Mpraeso, Bepong, Asakraka, Abetifi and Aduamoah, so how can Nkwatia be in Akyem when it is surrounded entirely by Kwahu towns?

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• amoah 10 years ago

  JB , Its quite interested, you claim to hail from Atibie.
  
  Do you know that the Ayoko family of Nkawkaw are buried on your burial ground and not at Obomeng

  JB , Its quite interested, you claim to hail from Atibie.
  
  Do you know that the Ayoko family of Nkawkaw are buried on your burial ground and not at Obomeng

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• Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

  Go and research; or better yet, go to the Nkwatia royal family and find out for yourself, as I have. Merely living somewhere does not make you a native, it merely makes you an inhabitant. We are the real royals of the land!

  Go and research; or better yet, go to the Nkwatia royal family and find out for yourself, as I have. Merely living somewhere does not make you a native, it merely makes you an inhabitant. We are the real royals of the land!

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• Paapa Owusu-Ansah 10 years ago

  A good one there Nana Yaa, Nkawkaw has come a long way and its facelift is long overdue, I think the last facelift I remember happened in early 1980s if I may be right, I think the Okwahu developments should not always be on ...
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  A good one there Nana Yaa, Nkawkaw has come a long way and its facelift is long overdue, I think the last facelift I remember happened in early 1980s if I may be right, I think the Okwahu developments should not always be on the mountaintop it will be nice to start from the bottom up and it should not be only based on our brothers and sisters living abroad. There should be fundraising every time and again depending on where to meet and when, years back it used to be YMCA at Accra, but it seems our business executives love for the Okwahuman has cool off . If the whole 17 towns are united with the help of God we can even constructe tunnel from Nkawkawkumah to Atibie to save lives, and tell me what will be beautiful than that? Don't forget the income that will generate from tool for the whole community. I wiould also like to use these occasion to plead to our Respective Traditional Chiefs who are responsible for Okwahuman land that we will be fully support them for any developments that will bring prosperity and peace for our people but they should please refrained from selling lands to foreigners and above all those in government within the whole district should be honest and help flush out the FULANIS LUNATICS. From Okwahu Asakraka to the borders of Fanteakah district is now becoming desert we need to work very hard to start tree plantations and claim it back, all this are investments and it will also help to boost the economy because most tourist like a beautiful landscape . GOD BLESS GHANA. GOD BLES OKWAHUMAN.

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