WATCH: How ‘akuma ase’ metamorphosed to ‘Kumasi’

Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II has been explaining the meaning of ‘Kumasi’

He said history has been distorted

He claims some chiefs in Ghana talk as if they are God

Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, Dormaahene has been explaining the real meaning of modern-day Kumasi which is the capital of the Ashanti Region and is the seat of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene.

In a viral Facebook video sighted by GhanaWeb, Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II speaking at a gathering indicated that history has been distorted by the Asante’s to suit their interest and therefore, he will use the opportunity given him to explain the meaning of Kumasi.

He said, some chiefs in Ghana talk as if they are greater than the Almighty God but “nobody is greater than God.”

Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II said, in the year 1640, the then chief of Akwamu, Ansa Sasraku, was going about saying when he dies, none of the twins of his sister can succeed him; this continued for a while till he died and it happened that there was confusion among the citizenry.

Dormaahene said, amid the confusion, the people of Kumawu took over some territories across the country and even extended to Côte d’Ivoire but “when they got to present-day Asante, that territory was under the Denkyirahene. Today they have an appellation as ‘asante kotoko kum apem a apem beba’ [if you kill thousand, thousand will come] but do you know that of the people of Bono, theirs is ‘abono kyen apem’ [Bonos are more than thousand]”

Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II explained, “this means that, when we got to Denkyira, Dormaahene had his territory; so the two were not fighting each other, our brothers from Asante – they were a group of people who had come together – but they broke away from Ntim Gyakari…and decided to fight the people of Dormaa because they were defeated six times…

“…We beheaded their chief and his head is still with the people of Dormaa…it took the people of Dormaa 250 years before they came to settle at Dormaahenkro but no chief was able to defeat the chief of Dormaa, because you don’t read your history you don’t know.

“You have fallen for the history that Okomfo Anokye planted a tree both in Asante and Kumawu and because the tree died that is why the place is called Kumawu; that is a lie. When we talk about Kumasi, it means that they were labourers. When we got to the place known as Asante today, the people of Kumasi were under Denkyira and they were responsible for getting Denkyirahene firewood that is ‘akuma ase’ but today, because of their population, they have changed it. It means ‘akuma ase hene’ and not Kum. If you are a chief and you are brilliant and you know the law, people are afraid of you…,” Dormaahene stressed.

Watch Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II in the video below.