It is time for both Yaa Ansaa and Yaa Botwe Families to be honest to Akwamuman because for a candidate to ascend to the Akwamu black stool, the candidate does not have to come from these two families alone. There are seven gr ... read full comment
It is time for both Yaa Ansaa and Yaa Botwe Families to be honest to Akwamuman because for a candidate to ascend to the Akwamu black stool, the candidate does not have to come from these two families alone. There are seven groups of families such as the Asomani family (the Head of all the families), the Yaa Ansaa family, the Yaa Botwe family, Mensa Wood’s family (from which I believe former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan comes from), and other three families; so for the Yaa Ansaa family to claim the black stool to be theirs alone is untrue, and it is wrong on their part. It appears they do not know their history very well; and it is time they go back and do serious research into their family history. Can they tell us that the following rulers who ascended to the throne from their side alone?
It is also wrong for the Yaa Botwe family trying to make it looks like a candidate must only come from either the House of Yaa Ansaa or Yaa Botwe Family to be able to ascend to the black stool which is wrong, and untrue. In Akan culture, for someone to be the Head of a family, that individual is in charge of the family and the black stool; and that individual also can ascend to the black stool so for the Yaa Botwe family trying to limit the candidates to the House of Yaa Ansaa and Yaa Botwe by eliminating
the Asomani (Amanguahene) and other families from it is incorrect and greedy. The Yaa Botwe Family shouldn’t think that they can bully others by hanging on to the the black stool; this would only continue to bring division among us and not peace as similar incident brought divisions between Akwamus and Dormaas. I believe it is time for Nana Afrakoma II to think twice about what she is doing; and I also believe that it is time for Odeneho Kwarfo Akoto III to step down for all the families to come together and put proper structure together, and also work together to elect someone either himself or someone else in a peaceful way which would lead to the development of the area. Some of us live outside and want to bring investors to come and help the development of the area but one cannot do that because of this problem; so it is time for all of them to come together as one family to help the development of the area.
It is time for both Yaa Ansaa and Yaa Botwe Families to be honest to Akwamuman because for a candidate to ascend to the Akwamu black stool, the candidate does not have to come from these two families alone. There are seven gr ...
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