Bremang Mausoleum ready to receive late Asantehemaa's body for final burial

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• ALMIGHTY ASHANTE 2 months ago

  GOD BLESS ASANTEMAN GOD...BLESS THE KING

  GOD BLESS ASANTEMAN GOD...BLESS THE KING

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• OPEN LETTER TO THE RESIDENCY AND PARLIAMENT OF GHANA 2 months ago

  Subject: End the Barbaric Practice of Human Sacrifice in the Name of Tradition
  
  Mr. President, Hon. Members of Parliament,
  
  It is a national disgrace that in 2025, Ghana — a country celebrated as a beacon of democracy i ...
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  Subject: End the Barbaric Practice of Human Sacrifice in the Name of Tradition
  
  Mr. President, Hon. Members of Parliament,
  
  It is a national disgrace that in 2025, Ghana — a country celebrated as a beacon of democracy in Africa — still tolerates archaic customs that permit the taking of human life in the name of tradition.
  
  We outlawed trokosi. We repealed the death penalty. Yet we remain silent while barbaric rituals persist in the Ashanti Kingdom, where individuals can openly declare themselves as “executioners,” threatening the public with impunity. How can this be tolerated under the rule of law?
  
  No custom, no stool, no throne, and no dead king deserves the blood of another Ghanaian. The Constitution of Ghana guarantees the right to life. This right is non-negotiable, sacred, and untouchable — and no tradition can stand above it.
  
  The Asantehene himself, who sat at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, should know better. Was human sacrifice practiced there? He claims to modernise chieftaincy and enjoys the privileges of state protection and motorcades — yet tolerates a custom that drags us back into the dark ages. Modernisation cannot be selective. It cannot mean luxury for the throne and barbarism for the people.
  
  Where are Ghana’s human rights lawyers? Our Civil Society Organisations? Our pastors who shout loudest when it comes to politics and wealth, but are suddenly silent in the face of murder?
  
  And most of all — where are our political leaders? Shame on every government that has failed to call this out. Shame on every Parliament that has allowed silence to pass for law. If the Asantehene can command respect to stop galamsey, then he can command respect to end ritual killings. Your refusal to act is complicity.
  
  Mr. President, Hon. Members, Ghana cannot walk into the future while chained to the blood-stained practices of the past. You swore an oath to protect life, liberty, and justice. That oath demands action — now.
  
  History will not forgive silence.
  
  End this barbaric custom. Protect the living. Honour our Constitution.
  
  Respectfully,
  A Concerned Citizen

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• Pampers 2 months ago

  Do you have any evidence that someone has been killed?
  If you don’t, pls keep quiet.

  Do you have any evidence that someone has been killed?
  If you don’t, pls keep quiet.

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• Ghanaman 2 months ago

  So why keep abrafo, what is their use and if they execute people, can't they be arrested. Do they still kill people. Is it the government of Ghana or Asante empire

  So why keep abrafo, what is their use and if they execute people, can't they be arrested. Do they still kill people. Is it the government of Ghana or Asante empire

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• Onipa nua 2 months ago

  This custom is outmoded and need to be stopped

  This custom is outmoded and need to be stopped

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