Can a lover and perpetrator of injustice be embittered and complain when themselves suffer injustice?

“What goes around, comes around”, so a saying goes. In Ghana of today, it has indisputably become an established fact that most people in positions of power and authority do abuse their positions to the detriment of the majority poor masses.

Both public and traditional leaders do the same when they sight any least opportunity, although morally inadmissible, to inflict injustice on their most vulnerable victims in the society.

Without beating about the bush but to hit the nail right in the head, the writer will again love to inform the Ghanaian and the worldwide reading public that his native traditional place of birth, Kumawu, suffered the mother of injustice from the year 2007 until today, at the hands of the Asante Overlord, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and his paramount chiefs and sub-chiefs.

The Asante Overlord exercised what the writer may term as “extrajudicial powers” to impose his choice of “royal” candidate on Kumawuman as their paramount chief (“Omanhene”). He had, and still has, no traditional or legal authority whatsoever, to not only dubiously involved himself in, but to impose an individual of his liking on Kumawu as their “Omanhene”, during the Kumawu chieftaincy dispute.

Any doubting-Thomas could do serious academic and or, traditional, searches and consultations, to prove the veracity or falsity of the writer’s assertions. It is just unfortunate that truth is in short supply in Ghana where falsehood is allowed to reign supreme or else, most of the injustices ongoing in the country will have no place to manifest.

Otumfuo was happy and still boasts of getting away with that blue murder, citing it for reference and precedent during his similar exercise of infliction of injustice on the people of Essumeja, also during their chieftaincy issues.

In the case of Essumeja, and by enforcing his illegalities on the subjects, he claimed to have been advised, ill-advised of course, in a dream by the centuries-old deceased renowned Asante fetish priest Okomfo Anokye and the departed ancestors to nominate and install a named-individual on Essumeja as their paramount chief. He claimed all the royals of Essumeja had died hence the power to install paramount chiefs on Essumeja has reverted to him, the Overlord of Asante.

As the writer writes, there are still legal or genuine Essumeja royals living not only in Essumeja but Ghana and outside Ghana. He had the opportunity to meet one of them during his most recent holiday in Ghana.

Why this publication today, one may ask? Is it not all about the writer sighting the Asante Overlord, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, in a recent recorded video posted on the social media bemoaning an injustice some NDC government ministers have perpetrated against a section of the people in Sempa in the Brong region?

In the video, he asserted that the Brong Regional Minister, the Interior Minister, the “Minister for Chieftaincy Affairs” and the Minister for Local Government Affairs, have exercised illegal powers and authority to cause the arrest of a section of the people Sempa. The Regional Minister had ordered a court judge to go to work on a public holiday just to remand to custody some individuals arrested following some chieftaincy disputations in Sempa, he said.

Those affected were surely the people or the side Otumfuo supports.

Otumfuo went on to assert that possession of power and authority does not go into perpetuity but will one day come to an end. Therefore, the leaders he mentioned could go ahead to enjoy their powers to perpetrate injustice now that they are in power. What a make hay while the sun shines!

Why is the Asante Overlord embittered against the government ministers he mentioned for executing injustices against some people in Sempa? Is he now feeling the pangs of injustice by seeing how immorally and illegally it is to perpetrate and perpetuate injustice in the human society?

What is good for the goose is also good for the gander, thus, what he sees as wrong for those people in Sempa that he supports, is also wrong for the people in Kumawu that he robbed them of justice and their birthright.

Be truthful unto death, the writer advises.
Until you have suffered injustice yourself, you will never know how painful and wrong it is to inflict injustice on your neighbour. Could this not be a similitude of, or imply, the saying, “Marriage is like a parcel, you don’t know the content of it until you have unwrapped it”? You will never understand the excruciating pain of infliction of injustice on others until you have suffered injustice yourself.

Despite the calm situation in Kumawu, wrong can never be right until justice is served! A wrong is wrong and can never be right until it has been righted!

The writer hopes readers will revisit his published articles on varied subjects on the various online media platforms to cite them to buttress their future contentions, where and if applicable.

Rockson Adofo