Photos: Strange coffin visits Fumesua chief’s palace
Residents of Fumesua in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti region woke up Sunday morning and saw a strange coffin in front of the chief’s palace.
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The coffin, which had been placed at the entrance of Nana Esua Amoako’s palace, located close to the main Kumasi-Accra Highway contained a bottle of schnapps, black and red cloths.
Eyewitnesses concluded that some aggrieved residents who have complained about the decision of Nana Amoako to sell a land earmarked for a cemetery to a private developer may have placed the coffin there to threaten the chief.
The strange coffin which literally shook the foundations of the town and drew a large crowd to the chief’s palace saw the elders racking their brains and consulting the deity of the town for answers.
The physically-shaken chief refused to comment on the incident when Graphic Online approached him and only indicated that it was a spiritual war with the ‘unknown’ and he would not like to comment.
A planned ritual which was to be performed to enable the coffin to be opened was initially abandoned.
Instead, a group of ‘brave’ young men forced opened the coffin where the items apparently meant to threaten the chiefs and his elders were found.
A statement placed in the coffin among other things asked the chief as a matter of urgency to revert the land to the community and ask the private developer to discontinue with his action.
‘That the old cemetery at Fumesua which was reserved as a market has been sold to a private developer without the consent of the residents of Fumesua which was also against the customs.”
‘That before the commencement of work on the said land the chief did not perform any rituals on the land leading to many people dying in the town,’ the seven-point statement in the coffin said.
The statement asked that the chief organise a general meeting on Sunday, July 24, 2016, with the elders to deal with the issues and the necessary rites performed while the chief makes himself available to explain his actions to the people of Fumesua.
Among the demand was for the chief to show the people of Fumesua where the remains of those buried at the old cemetery and their ornaments have been kept for the necessary rituals to be performed to avert any further calamities.
