"Eisenschmid's Report about further Developments in the Kukurantumi / Asafo Land Case"

According to Eisenschmid the earlier proceedings had left Ampaw of Kukurantumi in undisputed possession of the land, though with a heavy fine to pay on account of his representatives misuse of the Okyenhene’s oath. However, following the death of King Atta, the Maase and Asafo people became restive about the judgement, and the Maase chief went to Akwapim, and sold large stretches of the land to the Akwapims for low prices. On the 11th January this situation was considered formally in Kibi - fetish being drunk by both parties and the judges that the former would abide by the decision and the latter would judge fairly and impartially. On January 12th Ampaw put his case - and the other party simply left the court, Eisenschmid presumes because they could see they were hopelessly in the wrong. The missionaries tried to act as mediators, without success. One result of the situation is that the Kukurantumi school is at collapsing point. The children which Ampaw had put into it at the end of the previous year no longer attend - when Eisenschmid taxed him with this he replied with the proverb “No-one speaks someone else's word until he has spoken his own”.

29.01.1869

29.01.1869

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