Juju Scare Hits Kotoko

THE ENTIRE Kumasi Asante Kotoko team, including players and the technical bench, has been caught in fright, following the retrieval of a talisman known in local parlance as ‘juju’ in the private car of deputy Kotoko trainer Maxwell Konadu.
The new Kotoko coach drove the car to the Kotoko training grounds at Adarkwa Jarchie the previous day, but woke up the next day to find the scary ‘juju’ items in the locked car.
Upon seeing the ‘juju’ in his car, Maxwell Konadu immediately called Kotoko management to inform them and vowed not to use the car again. The former Wa All Stars coach has since handed over the Kotoko car to management and is now driving around Kumasi in his own private vehicle.
Maxwell Konadu indicated that he suspected a Kotoko insider to be behind the planting of ‘juju’ in his car but he refused to mention names.
Since the car was locked and there were no indications that someone had broken into it during the night, he suspected that the person might have placed the ‘juju’ at the back seat of the car during the previous day at the Kotoko training grounds.
According to him, when the scary thing, which had a red linen tied to it, was opened, about 24 names of Kotoko officials and coaches including his, were written on a piece of paper with other Arabic inscriptions.
The ‘juju’ was taken to a soothsayer by some Kotoko officials where it was revealed that the one who planted it in the car did so with the intention of causing confusion in the Kotoko family, which would eventually lead to the axing of Coach Konadu. Coach Konadu asked to be left alone stating that he is not in Kotoko to take over anybody’s job.