I was sad that old man lawyer Mohammed Tahiru Namb?e after losing his younger brother who died in Bawku while commiting a crime had the guts to appear in a discussion with a bag of lies trying to defend the claim of a Rip Van Winkle they call a Nayiri as having jurisdiction over Bawku which is the paramountcy of Kusaug
The first lie he told was that the name of Bawku is Mampruli, the language of Mamprusi. May I ask the liar to tell us the meaning of Bawku in his so called language which he is less than 5% proficient in. From oral tradition my grand father told me that the name Bawku is the anglicised form of Bau'ok in Kusaal which means a marshy field.It is not derived from Bok meaning a valley as the Mamprusi claim.
Lawyer Nambe and his cohorts have also maintained that Chieftaincy is a traditional institution which should separated as an entity from politics but he had forgotten or probably does not know that the hierarchy of Chiefs created in 1912 by Col Armitage was a political imposition of the Nayiri on the so-called acephalus societies which I consider erroneous. The Nayiri was imposed on Kusaug, Talensi, Nabdams, Frafras, Builsa, Kasenas by the British.which the Kasenas and Builsas rejected out right.
Kusaug was not so lucky because the Nayiri fooled the British the Settler Mamprusi chief in Bawku was already under his domain so there was no need to repeat the process there. THE British so naive though Bawku was a Mamprusi settlement and went about enskinning the canton Chiefs in Kusaug except Bawku.
But he was soon to learn the truth that in 1923 he created the local councils using the ethnic groups as the name .In Navrongo the District Commissioners created The Kusasi. Builsa, Kasena Nankani Local Councils independent of the Mamprusi Local Council. Does Lawyer Nambe want the world to believe he had not read the basic history of the people ?
By 1931the British in an effort to introduce indirect rule realised that the Chiefs of Kusaug were rulers of independent states which did not suit them. The Kusaas chiefs were called to a conference in March 1931 to elect a Paramount Chief for the first time and come under one umbrella. The Kusaas Chiefs wisely elected the Kusanaba as their Paramount Chief but the Brirish said they could not work with him because he was in the village far from Bawku. Through arm twisting the illiterate Chiefs were coerced to accept the settler Mamprusi Chief as the Paramount Chief of KUSAUG for the very first time. Though they resented idea of surrending sovereignty to their southern neighbours the Chiefs had no power to reject the politicians choice. Kusaug wholly became a unified body under a Bawku naba from 1931 until 1956, a period of 25 years and not 150 years as the Mamprusi story tellers want the world to believe. Does Lawyer Nambe read History or he is a chronic liar?
If the British imposed the Nayiri on the other ethnic groups, followed by the creation of the Bawku Paramountcy which firmly placed in the hands of the Nayiri, why is Nambe saying chieftaincy is insulated against politics or that only applies when the same political process is used to correct the errors of the past that he deems it as interference?
Let people like the Nayiri, Mamprusis both in Bawku and Nalerigu understand that no Mamprusi man will ever be enskinned up on the Scarp to descend as ruler of Kusaug. That era is gone and gone for ever never to return.Bawku is for Kusaug, Nalerigu is for Mamprusi just as Accra is for Gas and Kumasi is for Ashantis.
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