Continue from last week
WEEKLY FYLLA; Maybe that is why you were removed from the morning show? Do you for see any under hand dealing from outside?
OHENEBA NTIM- BARIMAH: As I said, I was taken out without any reason and I can't circulate when I don't have facts to back my allegations.
WEEKLY FYLLA: Has that affected you as a person and your relationship with your party and management?
OHENEBA NTIM–BARIMAH: Yeah! Psychologically, because it gives me premonition that the management doesn't like me especially coming after my removal from the Nkranman Nputuo without any reason.
WEEKLY FYLLA; Why do u think they will treat you like this?
OHENEBA NTIM –BARIMAH; I am yet to know. Maybe somebody doesn't want to see my face and hear my voice.
WEEKLY FYLL: Why do you think people will sabotage your program, especially when your contribution is vital or you are controversial?
OHENEBA NITM–BARIMAH: I don't know precisely. I am not that type who can be chased out easily, no way. I speak my mind; the fact is people fear to speak the truth.
WEEKLY FYLLA; Are you a Christian? Where do you worship
OHENEBA NTIM –BARIMAH: I called my self a Christian because I believe in Christ. And I visit churches.
WEEKLY FYLL: Are you married?
OHENEBA NTIM –BARIMAH (after few hesitations and gestures he finally said) … I have children. Two of them. I am yet to marry.
WEEKLY FYLLA: Your wife could have played a vital role in your life don't you think so?
OHENEBA NTIM–BARIMAH: I tried to stay with a woman who will understand me and take me as a brother, husband and friend but most of them attitudes scared me. I have never enjoyed a sisterly love in my life because my family disowned me so for about 20 years I was walloping in the wilderness. Nobody looked for me. I had my education through benevolent and philanthropist like Apostle Ebenezer Abebrese of the Apostolic Church of Ghana and one Tom Fjermedal Norwegian. I owned them a great debt of gratitude – for them I wound been nobody today. I salute you SIRS'
WEEKLY FYLLA: You have not answered my question. Why did your family disown you?
OHENEBA NTIM –BARIMAH: Is a long pathetic story. Are you prepared to listen? You see I went to see my family and they totally ignored and disowned me. It all started when I paid a surprise visit to my elder sister at her village called Hwidiem in the Brong Ahafo Region. You know, I didn't stay with my parents and all along this my sister had been harboring some fears that her predicaments of consistent miscarriages, is due to evil spirit from the family, and unknown to me and with this superstitions, they attributed them to me. So for more than six years nobody have seen me until my surprise visit to her village where she has gone to “hide”. I just went to her for some money to further my education which I had stopped for 6-years.
Immediately my sister saw me her attitude changed and as if she has seen Kweku Bonsam (devil). She asked me why I didn't call her before coming. She seems worried and disturbed. It was like (Ah I said it, who brought him here, what at all are they demanding from me…) She was then pregnant for two months so she was hiding it from her relatives whom she perceived as evils. Her mind was I have come to destroy her pregnancy again. Black man mentality!
I told her as my sister (one farther one mother) I don't need her permission to visit her, for assistance. She became offended and hostile to me that I left. Two weeks after I had left her she miscarriage again and it was attributed to me. Come and see fire, brimstone and insults. (Amidst laughter, even though dry). I was summoned and prosecuted seriously until I left them to save my life for Sunyani, Techiman roaming all over looking for survival. This kept me from my family for more than 20-years. All this while I have not enjoyed sisterly love up to date so any woman who doesn't possess the quality that will review my life, I am afraid …. (He sipped his water, wipes his face and put up his usual infection smile and said you now understand me?)
WEEKLY FYLLA; So where is your sister now? Has she had a baby?
OHENEBA NTIM–BARIMAH; She has traveled outside the country and she has given birth to two handsome boys who have completed University. But we are still not in good terms; this is a most painful experience in my life. For 20years, 1984-2004 in my life without sisterly and motherly love. Could you believe that after the birth of the children, I was still accused of not making my sister to bring forth a girl child can you believe this? When my mother died in 2004, nobody told me but I heard it in town and I went to avoid circulation of falsehood.
So when they heard I have come to the funeral and probably that I have completed University, every body was shocked and ashamed and could not come to me. It was one of my mother's sisters who is a Queen mother of Sunyani Odumasi who tried to resolve the problem but all effort to reconcile us proved futile. I thank God I am strong and when I went to University too I was a vandal of Commonwealth hall. It has strengthened me.
WEEKLY FYLLA: But you can still forget and reconcile with your family now that your mother is dead.
OHENEBA NTIM–ARIMAH: It is difficult if I should give you her number to talk to her? She hasn't change.
WEEKLY FYLLA Can you briefly tell your readers who Oheneba Ntim-Barimah is.
OHENEBA NTIM-BARIMAH:
“Boss” he addressed me. I was qualified to be in the zone of those who were born with a silver spoon in their hands but unfortunately unexpected circumstances snatched the spoon of hope from me to deprive me from enjoying the wealth and happiness of my great relatives. My grandfather happened to be the former Paramount Chief of Kwahu Tafo whiles my paternal mother was the Magistrate at Koforidua Court and my maternal grandmother was dealing in precious gold but they all died before I could realize my dream. You now understand me? Anyway I was born some 42 years ago to Nana Ntim Gyakari a former Ahene Mma Hene of Kwahu Tafo and my mother a teacher of Ejisu Bisease called Ama Adoma from Ashanti Juabeng. I schooled at Effiduase Secondary School (Effisco), which I couldn't complete, but later on I went to Navrongo Secondary School where I did both my O and A Levels before entering the University of Ghana to read Theater Studies in 1996. In 2004 I pursued my second degree in Bsc. Administration and currently I am also pursuing another course in BA Communications with PR option at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. I am the third born of my parents. 6 from my mother side and 21 from my father's end and I am their third born.” I see education as a vehicle for achievement and social status of acquisition. I am not discouraged by age to achieve my goal through education” This is my message to the youth.
WEEKLY FYLLA: Thanks once again for your time
OHENEBA NTIM-BARIMAH: Is my pleasure and may God bless you.