’Nobody Is Greater Than God’’, Dormaahene Reacts To Asantehene

The Ashantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has a swipe at Dormaahene Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II over the latter comments about a falsehood in history.  

During the first Council Meeting in the Ashanti Region, the Ashantehene indicated that the Asante Kingdom has not forced any of its subjects to serve the golden stool but it is a rare privilege and honor for anyone to be a subject to the golden stool. 

According to him, if others are willing to submit in order to gain the needed development and progress in their respective areas,

He said, “I don’t think you have any impact, those who want to be lifted to a dignified status would be accorded that and helped.”

Otumfuo also noted that “If you cannot fight for Asanteman, please vacate the seat for those who can. If you cannot sacrifice like our forefathers, then you don’t deserve the seat.

“Bono East too, anybody trying to raise his or her shoulders must be careful, not under my watch. If you claim you are a man, I am also a man. And with Drobohene my uncle lifted you in 1948.” Otumfuo disclosed.

“If you say today, no one can make the other a subject, who is making the other a servant here. No one has made the neighbor a servant,” he emphasized.

This comes after the Dormaahene appears in a viral Facebook video challenging the authority of the Asantehene in portions of Dormaa.

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

In the lengthy video, he said, ’you have fallen for the history that Okomfo Anokye planted a tree both in Asante and Kumawu and because the 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 laborers.

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…,’’