When You Become A Suspected Potential Poisoner, Please Don’t Cook For People – A Lesson For All

It is public knowledge, whether true or false, that a certain Ashanti queen’s brother’s death is put squarely on the head of this notorious queen. She is blamed for secretly feeding her brother who was a paramount chief, but now deceased, with a type of meat he was strictly forbidden by tradition and custom to eat. The meat in itself was not poisonous but tradition forbade him from eating it.

How was that possible, we may all want to know? She would cook for him the forbidden meat but would let him believe that it was some different meat other than the tabooed one. Take for example lamb (mutton) and someone telling you it’s goat’s meat; you may find it difficult telling the difference. Both types of meat may look the same and taste the same if the meat comes from a baby sheep (lamb) or a baby goat. So was her trick played on her brother?

Could eating the forbidden meat have sped up his death? I don’t know but the superstitious ones do believe so.

Anyway, this publication is put out to advise two categories of persons; those who cook for others and those who eat from food cooked by others.

Those who cook for others: When you become a suspect in the eyes of many to have deliberately caused the death of someone through the food you served to the person(s), please stop inviting people to eat from your table. Should you continue cooking and inviting people to eat from your home, those who are aware of your history will always turn down your invitations to them by offering you credible or flimsy excuses to justify why they can’t turn up. They may at times even not bother to offer you any excuse for failing to turn up.

Those who carry their stomach before them, eating from every bowl and from anywhere: To these people, I will advise them to be extremely careful of where and from whom they eat. From what I have heard from many people with or without knowledge of our African black magic called juju, most of the deaths caused and blamed on people for casting evil spells on others using juju or fetish are mostly false. It is not the juju that kills but the poison they may put in the food you eat or the water/alcohol you drink that kills.

If you stay away from eating anyhow, anywhere and from anyone, juju will struggle but it may never succeed in killing you.

Have you not heard of chairs being stuffed with poison-induced needles or items of that sort and offered to people to sit on? Once you sit on that chair and you slightly get pricked by any of the needles, you will get infected and by how lethal the poison is, you can die.

Was it any wonder then that when President “Ede bii Keke” Mahama attended the funeral of one Mr Agyei, alias Chumbey, at Kumawu barely a week, two or three ago, he refused to pop around the said queen’s house to drink or eat anything? All her great expenses made - cooking expensively sumptuous meal, purchasing expensive drinks from abroad and rushing down to Ghana from the Americas all with the aim of cornering the President in Kumawu to treat him to some sort of mini party even though he had come to mourn with the pastor of his Accra Baptist Church in line with Romans 12:15 – “Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep”, came to naught.

The President, despite his numerous shortcomings and corrupt attitudes and practices, may not be the type that eats from every bowl provided it is not libidinal-related.

As once said by my friend, Dr James Charles London, from the Kumawu Ankaase “royal” family, “If you are engaged in litigation with anyone, make sure you do not eat and drink from outside in order not to get easily killed by them through poisoning”.

I will not go into any further details about anything regarding cooking for others and eating from anywhere anyhow as “a word to the wise is enough”

I dedicate this publication to all those who cook for, and eat from, others’.

Rockson Adofo