The public must help me resolve a family's headache with two of their members

A family has invited the son of Kumawu/Asiampa soil to help them decide on which of their two now problematic members to continue to help. The son of Kumawu/Asiampa soil being currently out of Ghana, would like the Ghanaian public to assist him resolve the problem brought to his attention.

He has been informed of this family appointing two of their members at various times to undertake a vast farming project to eventually generate more income and wealth to the entire family.

They bought a large farmland for the first nominated member, gave him a huge sum of money to start the farm. The man went into the farming with vim and zeal.

He employed many farm helps, labourers as many in the farming communities may call them. Having cultivated tens of hundreds of hectares of the farmland, planted cocoa seedlings, plantain suckers and other farm crops, he decided to take some time of rest away from the farm.

He used to visit the farm from time to time to check on the labourers to see how they were doing. When he saw that everything was going well with the labourers seriously doing their job, he decided to stay away from the farm for longer periods without visiting, fully entrusting everything into the hands of the labourers.

He took to throwing parties, womanising and drinking alcohols. When not visiting the farm and the labourers hearing about the lifestyle he was in, become a drunkard and a womaniser, they also cultivated nonchalance attitude.

They could no longer be bothered. They were no longer taking any serious care of the crops.

By the time they realised, weeds and pests had invaded the farm; spoiled almost all the crops and laid the land bare.

The family was shocked to see how their member they trusted and heavily invested in in the hope of getting massive returns from their investment to benefit the entire family has ruined their money and land. They quickly held a meeting among themselves, then kicked him out of the land.

They immediately appointed another member from among them to take over the land. They provided him with money to see how best he could manage the farm to turn around the near lost fortune of the family.

The new member sacked all the labourers, employed new ones and set about rescuing the land and the little crops left from further destruction.

He decided to stay on the farm with the labourers, overseeing the job and taking firm farsighted decisions. He was a hands-on person.

In a few years later, any family member that visited the farm could see for themselves the good job he was doing. They were very happy and anticipative of recuperating all lost money/debt they incurred through the negligence of the first family member.

Everything looked promising until all of sudden, a ravaging weather of months-long scorched almost all the crops. No sooner had the scorching weather abated a little than a continuous heavy rainstorm set in.

To say this second family member was dejected is an understatement. He became really sorrowful and would refuse to eat for days, I am told.

The aftermath of the devastating scorching sun is not good at all, but with the intensity of the rainstorm reduced a bit, the disgusted farmer is bent on doing whatever it takes to regain all the losses, although himself ageing.

Subsequently, he has suggested to his entire family members to allow one of his most trusted, serious and hardworking labourers to take over the management of the work. He has absolute confidence in him to realising the family's dream.

Nonetheless, the first, or to be precise, the previous negligent family member, is threatening the entire family with the visitation of unceasing sulphur and brimstone should they not give back the farm to him to manage.

The family is now at a crossroads. Could the public please help?

I will welcome both the public and the experts' views to guide me in assisting the family resolve their dilemma for they are currently wedged between a rock and a hard surface.

I shall report back how it goes and the outcome of the debilitating problem at stake to you.

The family has come to seek my assistance, surely determined to drink from my overflowing fountain of wisdom. I have also turned to you, the public and experts in conflict resolution, to avail myself of your much valued views and in-depth knowledge about resolving Ghanaian family infightings.

You can communicate your views to me on Facebook, leave comments in the comment section as may be provided by the publisher, phone or email me. Please be quick as I have to let them hear from me by Saturday next week.