In the bible, Samson, the Israelite, was endowed with might, the type of which had never, and shall never, be witnessed in the history of humankin
In the bible, Samson, the Israelite, was endowed with might, the type of which had never, and shall never, be witnessed in the history of humankind. He was able to kill a lion with his bare hands and capable of beating and chasing out the enemies of Israel.
However, his love for Delilah, a Philistine woman, led to the sapping of his strength to culminate in his disgraceful death. Delilah in pretence of having true love for Samson, got him to reveal the source of his exceedingly incomprehensible strength. Once it was confided to her to lie in his never-cut hair, Delilah placed him in her lap, ruffled through his head with her fingers to get him to sleep, cut off his hair and then revealed the secret to the Philistines.
Subsequently, Samson was captured by the Philistines who gored his eyes, bound him in chains, tormented him and put him into laborious slavery until his demise. This is how a wicked woman can collude with your enemies to do to you.
Is Kumawuman, my ancestral place of birth, not gone through a similar situation that has reduced her to worse than a dirty tattered piece of cloth unworthy of any further usefulness but to be cast away into the refuse bin? A woman at her helm of affairs has colluded with outsiders to subjugate the people using both powerful traditional and government machinery.
The queen of Kumawu in liaised collusion with the Ceremonial Head of Asanteman but who claims to be the most powerful traditional overlord in Ghana to whom all the nation’s political leaders shamefully hurtle to prostrate to, and the divisional paramount chiefs in Asanteman, has reduced Kumawuman to a state overflowing with cowards.
Kumawuman is now being plundered by whoever wants, limb by limb, and bared in public for the whole nation to witness her nudity in broad daylight.
Hundreds of thousands of Kumawu stool lands have been illegally taken over by the said powerful traditional head, indeed a mere Ceremonial Head. He goes round telling the whole nation and the cowards in Asanteman that all the land in Ashanti region with the big markets in Kumasi are his personal property. He is given a standing ovation by his history-ignorant audience whenever he makes such wild claims.
While usurping the traditional powers and lands of Kumawuman, the queen of Kumawu, as selfish, greedy, wicked and surely uncivilized as she is, keeps nodding her head in concurrence, strengthening the hand of the Ceremonial Head to further reduce Kumawuman to rubbles.
In all these, almost the entire Kumawuman inhabitants, especially the so-called “eminent citizens of Kumawuman”, have gone dead silent. They don’t care, but are minding their own business.
I am just wondering if God has given up on Kumawuman out of spite for our failure to stand up as audacious people to defend the very land and other resources He has bestowed upon us.
Our forefathers fought to acquire us the land through their sweat and blood and instead of us standing together as a unified strong team to boldly use the truth to protect our inheritance from encroachment by external greedy bastards, be they traditional leaders or politicians, we have resigned ourselves to “Each one for himself and God for us all”. What a shame!
Dear God the Father, please, although Kumawuman has a Delilah that has colluded with the enemies to ruin Kumawuman and the people of Kumawuman, could you please forgive us our sins and weaknesses to empower us once more to reclaim our stolen lands and rights same as you empowered Samson to pull down the pillars and the building on the gathered audience that were making mockery of not only him but You?
Rockson Adofo
Sunday, 12 December 2021
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