Abufusem Galore

I'm writing to apologise on behalf of my cousin, Appiah, for showing gross disrespect to you and other elders at the last 'abusua' meeting. Indeed, what he did was an 'abufusem'.

How could he have had the guts to refer to you and the elders as 'enemies of progress'? Perhaps, he commited that act out of frustration because he has been unemployed for almost 24 moons.

Much as what he did was wrong, I don't think banishing him from the 'abusua' was correct either. After all, he has realised his mistake and apologised. To put it bluntly, not accepting his apology is as annoying as the act he committed. In other words, yours is also an 'abufusem'.

Abusuapanin, living with other tenants in a compound house can sometimes be very stressful, to say the least. Nothing one does goes without gossip. Yester-night I overheard wives of two co-tenants gossiping about me.

Listen to them: “As for Ogboro and his girlfriend, fufu and 'nnam akese' (big meat) is their regular meal. As some of us are trying to build our own houses to avoid the 'wahala' in this rented house, he is building in his stomach. No wonder his stomach is bigger than a six-month old pregnancy.”

Frankly speaking, how I resisted the temptation to give them a few kung fu and shaolin kicks is still a mystery to me. Please tell me, is this not an 'abufusem' of the highest order? Is it their concern if my girlfriend and I eat a full goat daily? 'Abufusem akwa akwa'!

Another 'abufusem' took place when the Anagoland community in Asomdwekrom celebrated the 47th independence anniversary of their homeland at Kama Conference in Nkrankrom about a moon ago.

They claimed that unlike Asomdwekromanians who had hypocritical tendencies, they (Anagolandians) were not pretenders.

A speaker went further by saying that in an instance where Asomdwekromanians would pretend to love someone they dislike, Anagolandians would not.

The audience then shouted: “Hypocrites! Hypocrites!! Hypocrites!!!” What an 'abufusem'!

Do you think Asomdwekromanians can put up such behaviour in Anagoland and have their heads intact? No, I dare say. I don't want to swim in xenophobic waters so I would end it here. 

Now let's look elsewhere briefly lest we sacrilegiously ignore other cases of 'abufusem'. Do you remember Constable Emmanuel Ativor?

The sexy cop who impregnated two sisters who were below the age of 18, at Lamashegu in the Northern Region. He was reported to have forcibly aborted their pregnancies thereby endangering their lives. Aah! If this isn't an 'abufusem' then what is?

Another 'abufusem' which cannot pass without comment is the recent detention of an employee of a private security firm, Kruger Brent Security Company, on suspicion that he stole a laptop computer. Hmm!

How can they, when they know very well that they aren't the 'koti service?' 'Abufusem akwa akwa!'

With all these 'abufusem' giving us a lot of stress, I'm sure a comic relief wouldn't be a bad idea at all. I'm told you are aware of the incident involving the living judge whose name appeared on the death records of judges.

See how DAILY GUIDE's latest cartoonist, the human TILAPIA captured the scenario: “Your lawship, but im name dey for death records ooo”.

Other judges then shouted: “He is here, he is alive, he no die..! The judge in question then said: “Owuo npo suro me…? I send death to prison long time….!

Till we meet again, I would urge you not to miss cartoons from Tilapia and my darling cartoonist, AKOSUA, because they would surely make you smile in the midst of 'abufusem' galore.
See you soon.