TENSION AT KUMAWU AS RIVAL CHIEF IS SWORN IN

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Tension is reported mounting at Kumawu in the Sekyere Kumawu district of Ashanti following the swearing in of a rival paramount chief for the traditional area at dawn yesterday. 

The newly sworn in paramount chief is a 56-year old Telecom Technician resident in Britain, known in private life as John Kwasi Oduro. 

His stool name is “Barima Tweneboah Kodua The Fifth”. 

An eye witness of the swearing in ceremony at Kumawu told Ashanti Today that the new paramount chief was sworn in at 1 am today in the presence of the Akwamuhene, Sumankwahene, Aduanahene and Akyempemhene of the Kumawu traditional Council with a fairly large crowd of the citizens. According to the eye witness, there was no security presence. 

The swearing in of Barima Tweneboah Kodua is seen as the beginning of a serious confusion considering the fact that about six months ago, the Medical Director of the Saint Michael’s Catholic Hospital at Pramso in Ashanti, Dr. Emmanuel Sarfo was sworn in and introduced to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu under the stool name, Barimah Sarfo Tweneboah Kodua and subsequently introduced to the people of Kumawu. 

  A resident of Kumawu and another eye witness later told a Kumasi-based radio station, Hello fm that following the swearing in of the rival paramount chief, tension  started mounting at Kumawu in the morning with re-inforced Police strength from Effiduase to augment their colleagues at Kumawu. 

However, when contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, ASP Mohammed Tanko Yusif could neither confirm nor deny the security situation at Kumawu.

Kumawu is one of the key founding paramountcies of Asanteman after the sacrifice of its chief,Nana Tweneboah Kodua for the fortification and unity of the Asante state in the olden days.

For this reason, any negative development in that traditional area, particularly a rebellion against the Asantehene, could have a serious repercussion for the entirety of Asanteman.





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