KSI DEMONSTRATORS CONDEMNED FOR 'ATTACKING' ASANTEHENE

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The Concerned Youth of Asante has strongly condemned participants of yesterday, Wednesday's demonstration in Kumasi dubbed “Baamu Yaada” for allegedly attempting to invade the Adum Stool House where the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, was performing a customary rite. 

The Asantehene, in tandem with Asante custom, visits the Adum Stool House to perform certain rituals on the sacred Wednesday or ‘Awukudai’ which coincided with the street protest. 

The demonstration was organized jointly by the Ashanti Regional office of the NPP and its affiliate pressure groups such as ‘Let My Vote Count Alliance’ and  the ‘Movement for Change’ to pressurize the Electoral Commission to clean the Voters’ Register before the November Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

 In the course of the protest march and on reaching the Adum Stool House, some of the protesters allegedly tried to veer into the House for no apparent reason and it took the Asantehene’s personal security detail to stop them at the entrance. 

A statement signed by the President of the Concerned Youth of Asante, Nana Agyenim Boateng, noted that the unprovoked action of the demonstrators to intrude the strictly private and cultural rites by the overlord of the Asante kingdom is very reprehensible and uncalled for.

 The action, the Association described also as very shameful and must be condemned by all peace loving members of the society. 

The statement again raised serious issues with the choice of ‘Awukudai’ by the organizers to carry out their street protest, saying that it is an affront to the sanctity of the occasion and should never be repeated.

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