Kumawuman Chieftaincy Disputation About to Resolve with Bitter Lessons Learnt?
"Had I known is always the recitation of the fool". It is vivid that the Kumawuhemaa with her Ankaase royals will sooner be licking their wounds, flip-flopping on their most intransigent belief that both the "Ananangya and the Odumase" royals are slaves. Much to their regret has their unpalatable history of royal origin been disseminated all over the cyberspace? They have been revealed to be rather the beautiful or the handsome and stout Fulani descendants who chanced to be introduced to the Kumawu palace many years ago. "Na who cause am Oga?" They must have themselves to blame for any history revelation which they may deem hurtful though, the recital of nothing, but the absolute truth. Now that the curtain is about to be drawn on their reign of complete incompetence, greed, selfishness, passionless and visionless, one can just imagine how they are scratching and pulling on their hair saying, "Had we known, we wouldn't have been that greedy; we wouldn't have mistreated the Kumawuman people, and felt a disdain towards the Ananangya and the Odumase royals as despicable slaves". It is too late for them to undo what has been done. It serves them right! However, they owe not only the Ananagya and the Odumase royal families an apology but the entire Kumawuman citizens the world over for taking them for granted.
What then is Akua Wurukye up to now that her con masters are imploding? She is more frustrated than ever before in her life. Her outward appearance and body language tell how badly her many fabricated lies as manipulated by the Kumawuhemaa cum her Ankasse kinfolk have taken a drain on her health. She is also mentally bruised. She is suffering from insomnia, the direct consequence of her volunteered lie-telling which is devastating her body. It serves her right! Never again may she be lured with the bait of treacherous bribery to tell lies. If she knew by accepting to lie on the pretence of the Kumawu paramount stool belonging to her and her family was going to land her in an eventual disgrace, she would have behaved differently. "Had I known", has now caused her the sufferance of a migraine. She is caught in her own woven web of lies and is hopelessly seeking an exit out. What has Akua Wurukye done or said, one may want to know? She has connived with the sitting Kumawuhemaa, the Krontihene and the Ankaase royals to accuse the rather genuine Ananangya royals of being slaves. In that respect, the Ananangya royals from the famous Barima Tweneboa Kodua matrilineal descent are forbidden to ascend to the Kumawu paramount stool, they profess in their midget's mental faculty. This is a classical situation of the "Pot telling the kettle you are black".
Interestingly, the hearing of the disputation over who becomes the next Kumawuman paramount chief chronometrically starts today, Tuesday, 9 June 2009. All things conforming to God's plan as in expectation, Kumawuman will within days or weeks have a new paramount chief who will surely come from the Ananagya royal family. Bitter lessons have been learnt by all the stakeholders in the Kumawuman chieftaincy affair. I have learnt that determination backed by action is the key to success. I have never and will never relent in my pursuit for justice for the Kumawuman citizens hence, offering myself as a vessel of God for that unique purpose. The queen with her kin has learnt how greediness and excessive pride in one's abilities can be deceiving. Both the Ananangya and the Odumase royals have learnt how unwavering fortitude and focused attention on one's beliefs can attain the best results even when the fight is desperate. They have learnt that "when the fight gets tough, the tough get going" and "Quitters never win and winners never quit". Akua Wurukye may have learnt how unhelpful it is to be manipulated to lie for others. What have you as a reader learnt from these life experiences?
I am retreating into my lair only to resurface as and when the need be. I pray all goes well with Kumawuman.
John Fosu
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