Re: "Has President Kufuor Used His Presidency To Promote Asantehene?"

Opanin, please leave the Asantehene out of this. The guilty party here is our "Hypocrite-in-Chief" - whom Ghanaians, the citizens of a nation of diverse ethnicity, elected to pull their country together, amongst other positive changes they wanted to see in their nation, in December 2000.
(http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=152331.)

He has disappointed many independent-minded, non-partisan and non-tribal Ghanaians, by his outrageous use of the machinery of state - to promote his favourites amongst his tribal chiefs.

Unfortunately, all of those personages are tribal supremacists (our local equivalent of the odious white supremacists of the Western world) - and it is important that they are never mentioned in the same breath as ordinary Asantes: who are good and decent human beings, who are not tribal supremacists one bit, as evidenced by their intermarriages and peaceful co-existence, with members of all the tribes in Ghana.

The president's actions, in this respect, are nothing short of treasonable - and worst than any past military coup in our country: because there has never been a coup in Ghana, which sought to, and ended up, dividing Ghanaians along tribal lines, ever.

Mr. Kufuor is the worst leader we have ever elected into office, in that sense - and history will condemn him for actively seeking to divide Ghanaians along ethnic lines for political advantage, as his many critics have always admonished him for, throughout his tenure: in his constant and shortsighted humouring of the megalomaniac traditional rulers he favoured over all other chiefs in Ghana, throughout his tenure.

In so doing, he created a great deal of resentment amongst decent and fair-minded Ghanaians: who were irritated by this insensitivity of his, and despised him for his abuse of the position he occupies to promote a tribal chief who offends his critics, because apparently, he mistakenly sees his role, as the reviver of the pre-colonial sovereign status, of his predecessors - an absurd, treasonable and foolish folly, for any traditional ruler in the unitary Republic of Ghana, to aspire to: and an outrage that actually threatens the cohesion and stability of our dear nation, on top too. Period.

Genuine Nkrumaists and all Ghanaians who are not the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidon-types (who wear blinkers permanently, and are too blind to recognise truth, even if they bumped into her in broad daylight at Asafo market), will be glad to see the back of the most tribalsitic head of state we have ever had the misfortune of electing into office in our homeland Ghana. Shame on him!

As far as your criticism of our "Hypocrite-in-Chief's" favourite tribal chiefs goes, let me remind you that history will judge Otumfuo Opoku Ware 11 as the greatest of the modern-day Asantehenes - for, he clearly understood that precisely because of the weight of history behind the stool he occupied, he had to keep a low profile, in order to foster national unity in our homeland Ghana.

There was no part of our country in which that august gentleman was not respected - and he was genuinely mourned by all Ghanaians when he passed away. May his soul rest in peace. That was a man who had class - and even though he was one of the most humble of men who ever walked the surface of this earth: he was respected throughout our nation. Food for thought, Opanin? Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: asem ebaba debi ankasa!

May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!