Tears Flow For Otumfuo’s Chief

There was a free for all wailing and united grief at the Asamponghene’s Palace at Krofrom when the late Asamponghene, Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor, was laid in state for two days.

Scores of mourners, including chiefs and subjects of the late traditional leader, trooped to the place on Sunday and Monday to bid farewell to Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor, who was murdered.

Virtually, all the mourners, especially the females that trooped to the Asamponghene’s Palace, cried bitterly and uncontrollably over the demise of the chief.

Even some of the traditional leaders were seen crying in public.

After two days of laying-in-state for people to pay their last respects to the late chief, the body of the Asamponghene was finally interred in a royal mausoleum in Achiase on the night of Monday.

Curses On Killers

Some of the mourners were also seen raining curses on Sadat Mohammed and any other person that had a hand in the killing of the late chief. The solemn event was also characterised by drumming and dancing.

Asamponghene’s Murder

Oheneba Kwadwo Aforduor suddenly disappeared and after several hours of checks his lifeless body was found in his black Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle on a major highway close to Ejura in August, 2019.

Evidence that was gathered at the crime scene suggested that the chief was murdered by some fiendish people, who later on attempted to burn his corpse and his car in order to cover up their crime and escape arrest.

The Ashanti Regional Police Command declared one Anwar Sadat Mohammed aka ‘Mallam’ or ‘Alhaji’, said to be a friend of the late chief, wanted for having a hand in the killing of the Asamponghene.

Sadat Mohammed escaped arrest for some weeks but he was eventually apprehended in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, following a collaboration between the police and Interpol in Burkina Faso.

The prime suspect in the chief’s murder, had since appeared before the Asokore Mampong District Court for about three times and he was remanded into prison by the court during those occasions.