What I saw and heard at Nsuta during the queen’s son’s funeral

This publication is to console, strengthen and sympathise with a bereaved family in Nsuta while at the same time to advise the ultimate head of the family to immediately take remedial steps to correct an obvious misstep made.

On behalf of the Kumawu Basoah family, the writer extends his sincere gratitude to all those that came from far and near to mourn with them at the funeral of the late Mr Sampson Kofi Boakye, their youngest sibling.

Kofi was not only the last-born child of their late father Opanin Kwame Basoah but the penultimate, thus, next to the last, child, of the current queen of Nsuta, Nana Siaburaa Aduwaah II.

The Basoah family expresses their appreciation for the love shown by the attendee mourners, their generous donations and the conduct and teeming presence of the youth of Nsuta during the candle night on the eve of the funeral.

Most of the siblings from Kumawu had hoped to meet the paramount chief of Nsuta, the uncle of the deceased, at the funeral. They had lived with him in the same house in Kumawu when he was a teenager and a brother-in-law to their father.

However, he was not only conspicuously missing but none of his elders or subchiefs did attend. What a shock!

The family doesn't want to believe any rumours they heard about any deliberate steps taken to disrupt the funeral.

They heard that it has never occurred in the history of the funerals of Nsuta royals to see other funerals held on the same day. Nonetheless, they saw several funerals take place in Nsuta on Saturday, 21st March 2026.

Why is this unusual occurrence and who could have authorised it? Has what happened going to be a one-off sabotage occurrence, or a historic traditional innovation come to stay following the shocking demise of young royal Kofi Boakye?

Were the sub-chiefs strongly instructed not to show up at the funeral and whosoever defying the order from above risks destoolment, a rumour heard? If not, how could we explain away the stark absence of the Nsuta traditional sub-chiefs at the funeral of their paramount queen’s son? The writer cannot get his head around it and the more he cogitates about it, the more it gets to him.

Finally, an external shock that was beyond the capability of the mourners and the organisers of the funeral did happen, thus, a heavy rainfall poured to disrupt the funeral. What a sequence of compounding events ably not only to disrupt the funeral but incur financial loss to the organiser(s) of the funeral.

Without mourners attending a funeral in their numbers, deprivation of funeral donations ensues.

The Basoah family prays that the Nsutamanhene will take immediate reconciliatory steps to reunite the family by resolving their differences, if any.

They had hoped to meet the chief whom they had not seen since he left Kumawu in early 1970s when they were all teens growing up together.

There shouldn't be a disunity in the family. The bible says in Matthew 12:25, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand”.

The chief is advised to cast his eyes back to see the tribulations his sister, the queen, went through before she could ascend to the throne to finally pave way for him and her other future blood descendants. By this, he could forgive and pardon whoever has offended him to bring about the family unity the writer saw thriving between them when he was at Kumawu growing as a teenager.

This publication must surely reach the paramount chief of Nsuta, Nana Asamoah Gyamfi Sekyere II.

Rockson Adofo

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