Shock and awe as traditional executioner bites off live fowl's head at funeral

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  • AeSop 10 months ago

    Borlanews for borlabirds, village idiots and the Nkwasiasem Party People from our one and only borlaweb

  • OKK 10 months ago

    What does this story got to do with NPP? MPP HAD BECOME CHEAP such that Any idiots from a family of idiots is speaking nonsense about the party

  • Nii Ashie 10 months ago

    Cannibalism in the 21st century. If not in the territory of these primitive bastards where else will such a disgraeful act happen? What a shame

  • FRANKIE 10 months ago

    This is not tradition. This is barbaric. This is primitive. This is cruelty to animals. This is weird. This is cannibalism. This is grotesque. DAMN!

  • Beehive 10 months ago

    This what we call "shock and awe"? That's just how far behind we have fallen. It's the 21st century for heaven's sake!

  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 10 months ago

    Qur'an is toilet paper. Burn all mosques in Africa.

  • Game Changer 10 months ago

    Ashanti ankasa, they dabble in too much fooling in the name of culture N tradition. SMH

  • TRUTH 10 months ago

    NOT THE PRETTIEST ACT AND OUTMODED BUT WHAT IS STRANGE ABOUT THIS.

    THE PEOPLE YOU COPY YOUR CIVILITY FROM AND THAT MAKES YOU SO HOLY TEACH YOU TO STICK FORCEPS IN THE SERVICE AREA OF WOMEN AND PLUG OUT BABIES. THEY SPEND A ...
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  • Pacha 10 months ago

    May Allah gúde you onto the right path.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 months ago

    This is more than barbarism. It is absolute madness and stupidity. I lived in Ashanti region during my formative years and early childhood and never ever saw anything like this nonsense ever taking place. If he is that brave, ...
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  • AHEM. CANNIBALISM? HEH HEH HEH "GROTESQUE" IT IS BUT CANNIBALISM? 10 months ago

    Massa, where does cannibalism come in here? Yes all your other descriptions may be regarded by many as appropriate. Some folk from certain parts of Ghana seem quite comfortable with beheading chickens by biting their heads of ...
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  • ISRAEL DOING WORSE IN GAZA--GHANANI 10 months ago

    Cruelty to animals? And yet you people support the barbaric genocide Israel is committing against the Palestinians Israel is committing more barbaric acts than this in Gaza. HYPOCRITES!!!!

  • Nusty 10 months ago

    I wish for Israel to wipe off and level off the whole of Gaza. That land can be used for beneficial purposes.

  • THE MAN IS NOT WELL 10 months ago

    If you saw any random man or woman behaving like that on our streets the first thing you would think of is that he is not well. He is a lunatic and he actually resembles these unfortunate and neglected mentally ill patients r ...
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  • Akosua-Do 10 months ago

    And borlaweb, Ghanaweb, is there to highlight this because they find VERY IMPORTANT. Ashantis are backward - sorry

  • ELIKEM 10 months ago

    Akosua,some bird tells me these behaviours were taught to the bush dwellers by a chief priest from Angloga called Okomfo Anokye.

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 10 months ago

    AKOSUA - DO GYIMIFUO:
    IF YOU CAN’T DEFEAT THEM, JOIN THEM.

    THE SAME PEOPLE YOU ARE CALLING PRIMITIVE ARE MAKING SERIOUS STRIDES IN THE GHANAIAN BUSINESS SECTORS, BUILDING CAR MUSEUMS, HOSPITALS, HOTELS AND BUSINESSES. ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 10 months ago

    Kwasia the only thing you have done to this country is engaging in corruption/crime/galamsey. From Cecelia Dapaah to Adu Boahene. FBI just picked up three fraudsters. some from East Legon. The three top richest people/busines ...
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  • THANK YOU, NII ASHIE! THIS GRUESOME ACT CAN ONLY BE PERPETRATED BY AN UNCIVILIZED AKAN, PARTICULARY AN ASANTE OR AKYEM. 10 months ago

    THANK YOU, NII ASHIE! YOUR COMMENT "HITS THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD"!

    THESE SO-CALLED "ANIMALS" INCLUDING CHICKENS EXIST TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF NATURE. THEIR MEAT GIVES HUMANS THE NUTRITION WE NEED FOR OUR EXISTENCE, S ...
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  • HOW DO THE CHICKENS AND TURKEYS IN OUR MARKETS AND SUPERMAKETS GET THEIR? WERE THEY ILLED IN A "CIVILISED" WAY? 10 months ago

    Most of us love chicken and turkey and before the weekend many of us would have bought chicken from our local market ,shop or supermarket. How did these prepared chickens get there? Do we ever bother to check out how these ch ...
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  • KK 10 months ago

    Aah!… 21st century and at this era? No development only these? This is a disgrace to Africa. So what did we achieve from all these?

  • Die hard Npp 10 months ago

    This ewes are truly heartless people that's why I didn't date ewes girls chaiii

  • Game Changer 10 months ago

    No wonder you're a die hard nppig. Kwaseato, u failed to call out the bush attitude of your primitive tribesman for his backwardness. Ewes don't look that dirty in public gatherings.

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  • Prince 10 months ago

    I think the Man is insane,should be kept in prison, why don't he bite the head of snake, a liar

  • Die hard Npp 10 months ago

    This ewes are heartless people in earth hmm that's why I date ewes girls chaii.

  • Nyansani 10 months ago

    This really primitive culture.

  • OKK 10 months ago

    What is shock about this? Ghanaweb and useless sensational headlines.

  • Dunia 10 months ago

    Maybe the shock is that upon all the loud noise they make claiming superiority over all tribes, they're just still very stoneage primitive.

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 10 months ago

    What has this got to do with mourning the dead?

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 months ago

    Absolutely nothing. He might have smoked OBONSAM TAWA, inhaled something, and taken a big dose of APIO. Besides that, he needs to be mentally evaluated to find out if his Mental Faculties are really functioning. He had defini ...
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  • Obour 10 months ago

    Barbarism is all you lot know. The most evil people in Ghana

  • Man Friday in Robinson Crusoe 10 months ago

    They are still cutting heads to bury with the corpse of their traditional leaders. They have not stopped ooo Tom. Innocent Ghanaians should be very careful when they find themselves among them
    Even their hotels are not sa ...
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  • Ghanaba kwaku 10 months ago

    Gyimii nkoaa.

  • Louis 10 months ago

    Villagers

  • Test2 10 months ago

    AND THESE PRIMITIVES COME TO OUR BEAUTIFUL ACCRA LAND OF THE GA PEOPLE TELLING US NOT TO.OBSERV OUR SOLOMNELY NO NOISE MAKING FOR ONE MONTH ONCE IN A YEAR TRADITION

  • THANK YOU, NII ASHIE! THIS GRUESOME ACT CAN ONLY BE PERPETRATED BY AN UNCIVILIZED AKAN, PARTICULARY AN ASANTE OR AKYEM. 10 months ago

    THESE SO-CALLED "ANIMALS" INCLUDING CHICKENS EXIST TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE OF NATURE. THEIR MEAT GIVES HUMANS THE NUTRITION WE NEED FOR OUR EXISTENCE, SO WE MUST LEARN TO TREAT THEM WITH COMPASSION, LENIENCY AND CIVILITY BECA ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 months ago

    Did you forget the Tsikatas, Rawlings, and the other Anlo Ewe Sogakokpe maniacs and morons? What about Nkwantabisa, Akatapore and the Youthful Northern Nonentities and Bastards that Efo Jeremiah used to undertake his gruesome ...
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  • James /Uk 10 months ago

    21st century? Says who? Do you know what other cultures do perhaps only not in public even here in Ghana. Who dictates tradition anyway? Were these not the practice that kept infidelity, murder, robbery and all social vices ...
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  • Elmina seaman 10 months ago

    They are disgracing Africa. Foolish tribe

  • Samuel. 10 months ago

    Barbaric! This should never be encouraged.

  • The Devil’s Advocate 10 months ago

    Speechless.Beyond belief.Was there any police present?Does Ghana have animal cruelty laws on public offence of this sort.For God’s sake someone do something!

  • Abinziki 10 months ago

    Disgusting.... Not shocking.... they eat everything from snakes, lizards, mice,and vultures. So bitting off a chicken's head is an honour to him. POVERTY MU SKILLS ....Hmm

  • Nii 10 months ago

    Perhaps the slave trade and Colonialism did us some good by at least eradicating some of these barbaric behaviours.
    We need to wean ourselves frome such primitive activities.

  • TRUTH 10 months ago

    FOOLISH IDIOT.

    AND IN RETURN COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY INTRODUCED MORE BARBARIC AND SICK ACTS LIKE SLAVERY ITSELF, WHICH I DOUBT YOUT STUPID HEAD UNDERSTAND WHAT SLAVERY REALLY WAS.

    IT ALSO INTRODUCED, ARMED ROBBERY, REM ...
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  • TRUTH 10 months ago

    FOOLISH IDIOT.

    AND IN RETURN COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY INTRODUCED MORE BARBARIC AND SICK ACTS LIKE SLAVERY ITSELF, WHICH I DOUBT YOUT STUPID HEAD UNDERSTAND WHAT SLAVERY REALLY WAS.

    IT ALSO INTRODUCED, ARMED ROBBERY, REM ...
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  • TRUTH 10 months ago

    SICK BOY.

    AND COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY IN RETURN INTRODUCED SICK BARBARIC ACTS AS SLAVERY, POLLUTION, ARMED ROBBERY, CORRUPTION, DOMINATION, SUBJUGATION.... SHOULD I CONTINUE TO LIST THEM FOR YOUR STUPID HEAD.

    GO TO CAP ...
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  • Evelyne 10 months ago

    this is backwardness aaaba Ashantis. This happens in the 14th century. The animal right groups should condemn it.

  • Dundu Banza 10 months ago

    This is NOTHING STRANGE OR AWESOME. LET HIM BITE OFF THE HEAD OF A COW.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 months ago

    Biting the head of a Cow would be easier. Let him bite off the head of a 7 to 10 feet Cobra or the Green Mamba. He could have also tried with a Lion, Leopard, Tiger, Alligator or Crocodile. And he thinks that such stupid acts ...
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  • Don 10 months ago

    This nincompoop must be arrested immediately. This nonsense must stop

  • kiki 10 months ago

    STOP IT! This you say is tradition??? From where??? This is shere barbarism cruety towards alternative life forms (harmless animals)!

  • AKUFO ADDO AND NPP ARE THIEVES 10 months ago

    OF WHAT RELEVANCE IS EATING UNCOOKED FOWL AT A GATHERING? WHAT FOR AND WHATS THE BENEFIT TO GHANAIANS? BACKWARD PEOPLE, ANIMAL SHIT EATERS, ASHANTI MY TRIBE IS FULL OF GYIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII PROMAX

  • HARD -Talk 10 months ago

    This wasn’t sankofa but animalistic Cultured backwards minded incident. such shouldn’t be accepted in a civilised country like Ghana.

  • Afroboy 10 months ago

    Thank God the white man came to deliver us from some of these foolish and brutish life

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 months ago

    Stop that utterances. The White Man did not come to deliver Africans from anything. They were even more horrible. Do you think that the Slave Trade is something good to write home about? Go to visit the Castles in Africa and ...
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  • Nene Sackitey 10 months ago

    Sad you should think this way my brother. Please dive deep into history and you would come with your own knowledge.

  • Good eye 10 months ago

    2pts

    Someone should remind him to visit the nearest hospital quickly.

    Hope the youth don’t watch this, they should be looking at Elon Musk’s exploits with Space X, they should be looking at how some Ghanaians are su ...
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  • Kwabena UK 10 months ago

    This wicked idiot must be arrested. Next time he will do to humans.

  • THE WHITEMAN SUCCESS IS OF NO DOUBT 10 months ago

    Look at all you jumping about superficially condemning the act without reflection on the substance. Yeah the public nature of it alone is just disgusting but put it proper context. Some are calling for Animal Rights etc for ...
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  • Yen tina ho nah ... sei! 10 months ago

    Arrest this primitive cannibal is cruelty to animals

  • Ntim Gyakari 10 months ago

    Hahahaha Hahahaha. Sagrenti come for your stone

  • Bigi 10 months ago

    Gyimiiii saaaaaaaa

  • NDC NPP SAME DEVIL 10 months ago

    Highly primitive, villagitic , attitude. He can't even swallow it.go and do it in front of children. Buffoon!

  • Kwesi 10 months ago

    Why are these people so, so primitive!! The sad thing is that their overlord endorse this kind of primitivity under the mantle of tradition and culture. What he has forgotten is that culture is not static but rather it is a d ...
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  • John 10 months ago

    @Kwesi. I am not sure that Mahama knows what it means to reset a country. For him it means building roads, bridges, hospitals, schools etc. etc. which are all necessary but not sufficient. We can never reset a country without ...
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  • Nene Sackitey 10 months ago

    @John, Mahama at least has started something which is critical to development. You cannot develop a country without infrastructure, educated/skilled employable citizens for the workforce ( “development of the road is the r ...
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  • Bamday 10 months ago

    psychosis at the highest level

  • Tt 10 months ago

    Barbarism and cruelty to animals. Very despicable

  • Elorm 10 months ago

    What is heroic about biting the head of a helpless fowl. Useless news

  • KANKAN NYAME 10 months ago

    When true power is been used to invent and create.. we still using our little black magic only to kill and destroy Creation.. oh Africa.. after killing that fowl he will go pressing his IPhone or Android phone.. Time for Blac ...
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  • Ghanani 10 months ago

    Oh yes America the home of IT and the Judeo-Christian world are helping and aiding the barbaric slaughter of Gazans by Israel.

  • Napo 10 months ago

    Barbaric, this is satanic

  • Innocent Ghanaian 10 months ago

    The BARBARISM Of The Tribalist, Traitor,, Animal-Cruel And LAWLESS Lawmaker (The Cowardly Secret Killer: Sam George Nartey), Being Brought To Bear Before The Eyes Of Ghanains And The World, By The Most High God, To Caution Th ...
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  • Freedom & Justice 10 months ago

    A new disease on its way and probably worse than the bird flu

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    Imagine this happened in Volta region, some Ghanaians will call it juju but in Ashanti region, same Ghanaians will call it culture or tradition. Hypocrisy at highest level.

  • Awudu 10 months ago

    Stupidity in the name of culture , very soon he will get health Issue

  • Concern 10 months ago

    Gyimi saaaa

  • cr7 10 months ago

    U mean cutting off common chicken head is seen as act of bravery that left mourners awe struck?? Lol..that tribe really full of cowards

  • La Pleasure man 10 months ago

    Primitive ape.. probably impotent too..

  • KWAME NKRUMAH NOA NA OMPER YASEM NO 10 months ago

    The police must arrest and charge him cruelty to animal, he must face charges which can lead him to prison or fines

  • Accra is dirty.com 10 months ago

    This is what we call "miiyer amayen ahwe"very stupid indeed, very outmoded custom practice

  • Bmk 10 months ago

    This fool will be at the hospital in the coming few days

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    This shouldn't given any space. Ghanaweb can't seem to stop shocking. This stupidity, idiocy, a crime and shouldn't deserve our attention at all

  • Ashley 10 months ago

    He should be arrested immediately for cruelty to an animal.

  • Mt Everest 10 months ago

    Absolutely nothing "awe" inspiring about this. Rather it's an act of barbarism.

  • Ghana Money 10 months ago

    Villagers in action.

  • Kwame Adjei-Mrnsah 10 months ago

    This pre historic barbarism shouldn't be showcased in a purported civilized Ghana. What a stigma. Are we headless savages ?

  • The Don 10 months ago

    Mental health issues

  • GOOD OBRAFO. [EXECUTIONER]-Omanba 10 months ago

    Good Obrafo[executioner]. God gave mankind absolute power over animals and birds. He didn't presribe how birds and animals should be killed.

  • Kofi Kwatsi 10 months ago

    This is no bravery but sheer backwardness. When nations are moving towards AI and we have idiots still commanding fear and cowardice in the society.

  • kofi 10 months ago

    This is cruelty to animal. This guy would be jailed if he is in the State. Some people would argue that, it's our traditional and there is nothing wrong with that. Give me a break. Some tradition are of the past. I hate to se ...
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  • Jonas 10 months ago

    Very primitive!!! No wonder Ghana is not developing fast like our peers countries Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea etc

  • KofSam 10 months ago

    Do you call this primitive act a culture ? How could one bite off the head of a live fowl at such a public gathering? If this has happened in a civilized western country , this man would have been arrested and charged with an ...
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  • REO 10 months ago

    This is nonsense from senseless and heartless village man chewing live chicken all in the name of useless tradition

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  • Serengati 10 months ago

    These people are still acting stupid in that region ?
    This is pure madness !

  • JULOR CAESAR 10 months ago

    That man is Ozzie Osbourne's younger brother.

  • Kwame Nkrumah 10 months ago

    Lwe kuan yew cautioned kwame nkrumah