"Gold Coast Executive Committee of the Mission to Basel"

On receipt of the Governor's letter (No. 6, annex) they have decided to recall Asante from Kibi to Akwapim. This is done in order not to damage the Mission by a long-drawn out conflict with the British Government. They have informed the Governor, that they do not share his opinion of the case, and consider that the issue was judged on grounds of politics as it was in the court. They are certain that the Okyenhene bribed witnesses, but since their witness was sworn, they are powerless to act against this. They admit that the thought of the possibility of the withdrawal of the £100 p.a. donation from the English Government influenced them (proceedings involving the Wesleyan Mission offered a precedent for this possibility), but so did the thought that if they persisted with Asante in Kibi the Governments both in Cape Coast and London would begin to look on the mission with disfavour.

29.01.1878

29.01.1878

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