ASHANTIS And DAGOMBAS Are Capable To Seizing Ghana As Their Own PROF KWAMENA AHWOI

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]ASHANTIS and the Gombes are capable of seizing Ghana as their own.

[00:00:09]Change the word there to of.

[00:00:12]Ashantis and the Gombes are CAPABLE OF SEIZING GHANA AS THEIR OWN. And this is Professor Kwamena Ahwoi speaking.

[00:00:26]PROFESSOR KWAMENA AHWOI.

[00:00:32]NOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE know Professor Kwamena Ahwoi?

[00:00:39]This is the man.

[00:00:42]Professor Kwamena Ahwoi.

[00:00:46]He's a very powerful bigwig of the NDC.

[00:00:52]And he's been a member of the NDC from time immemorial.

[00:00:56]He's part of the Ahwoi family.

[00:00:58]There's Kwamena, there's Akwasi, and there's Kwesi.

[00:01:02]ASHANTIS AND THE GOMBES ARE CAPABLE OF SEIZING GHANA AS THEIR OWN.

[00:01:09]And this is Professor Kwamena Ahwoi.

[00:01:12]NOW, PROFESSOR KWAMENA AHWOI is a very interesting man.

[00:01:17]He spoke and it's made headlines all over Ghana as we speak today.

[00:01:25]First and foremost, who is this man?

[00:01:30]Gen Z may not know him.

[00:01:34]But this is a political bigwig of the NDC.

[00:01:41]They come from the Fante Confederation of the NDC.

[00:01:47]THEY ARE THE AHWOIS.

[00:01:50]YOU NEVER BECOME A FLAGBEARER if you are not friends with the Ahwois. That's how powerful they are. I don't know if they still have that power or not.

[00:02:02]I'm going to run you a short dossier, so you get to know exactly who THIS MAN IS.

[00:02:07]RUN THE DOSSIER. WATCH THIS. PROFESSOR KWAMINA AHWOI IS A distinguished Ghanaian academic, legal scholar and politician. He is universally recognized as the PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT OF GHANA'S MODERN LOCAL GOVERNANCE and decentralization system.

[00:02:27]Please, this is very important.

[00:02:30]That was what he spoke about.

[00:02:33]And he made all the headlines a couple of days ago.

[00:02:38]HE'S WHAT? UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED AS THE PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT OF GHANA'S MODERN local governance and decentralization system.

[00:02:49]It means modern-day governance.

[00:02:53]This is the proponent.

[00:02:56]This guy.

[00:02:57]Today, if we have government and then the local governance, of course, and decentralization system, then it's all about Kwamina Ahwoi. He was born on October 13, 1951 in South Suntreso, right there in Kumasi. South Suntreso.

[00:03:18]South Suntreso.

[00:03:21]They simply say South in Kumasi.

[00:03:24]HE'S OF FANTE and Sekondi heritage.

[00:03:27]IN FACT, HE WENT to O'Reilly Secondary School for his GCE O level and later proceeded to Opoku Ware School in Kumasi.

[00:03:38]He graduated with a law degree from the University of Ghana and went on to study as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law BCL degree in 1975.

[00:03:53]I was only 1 year young.

[00:03:58]The Blue Book and decentralization.

[00:04:00]NOW, AHWOI SPEARHEADED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE landmark 1987 local government reform blueprint. District political authority and modalities for district level elections, commonly known as the Blue Book. Now, this document directly laid the groundwork for Ghana's modern district assembly structure.

[00:04:19]This is Ghana's architect. Political architect. This guy.

[00:04:27]This is Ghana's political doyen.

[00:04:32]Now, in 1977, he concurrently served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, authorizing Ghanaian troops to join the Nigerian-led ECOMOG peacekeeping intervention during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

[00:04:47]In 2000, he set up the Ministry of Planning, Regional Cooperation and Integration, steering Ghana's involvement with ECOWAS, and the National Development Planning Commission, NDPC.

[00:05:01]This is PROFESSOR KWAMENA AHWOI.

[00:05:05]WHILE WORKING AS A FULL-TIME LAW LECTURER AT THE University of Ghana, HE WAS PERSONALLY TAPPED BY J.J. Rawlings on December 31, 1981 to assist the PNDC military regime.

[00:05:18]So, they pulled him out of the university and put him inside the PNDC.

[00:05:22]And he worked with Rawlings. Later, he wrote a book, controversial book, Working with Rawlings. You need to read THAT BOOK.

[00:05:30]HE SERVED AS THE MINISTER SECRETARY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT and Rural Development from '88 to 2001 across both the PNDC and the subsequent National Democratic Congress, the NDC. So, he is an old bone from the PNDC all the way into the NDC.

[00:05:48]He's a big wig. Born in 1951. Flip.

[00:05:53]This is the man we are talking about.

[00:05:56]HEY, HE RETURNED to academia in 2001 to teach.

[00:06:02]And he's a governance professor anytime he goes there and he teaches law as well. He's published a lot of material out there including working with Rawlings which he published about six years ago.

[00:06:19]And that was so controversial.

[00:06:21]Those of you who are interested in Ghanaian history, hey, the deep one, go in there. You would never put the book down.

[00:06:29]Working with Rawlings. Flip.

[00:06:31]This is the man.

[00:06:33]And in his personal life, oh, he is a politician. And his brothers are two and Quesia Ahoi are part of the beautiful Ahois. He's married to Comfort Nowdalo Mucho Ahoi, a lawyer, and they have four children. They've done well.

[00:06:53]This is the man we are talking about.

[00:06:55]Now, let's go to the tape in which he spoke and he made sense.

[00:07:03]In fact, powerful sense. Even though many are critiquing him now.

[00:07:10]Let's listen to what he said.

[00:07:12]And let's listen to how he builds his argument.

[00:07:15]This tape is only 4 minutes. Watch this.

[00:07:20]In decentralization, you must be aware that there are separatist tendencies.

[00:07:26]It is very easy to move from decentralization to separation, to federalism, to balkanization, to secession, and to the breakdown of the country.

[00:07:38]This is the reason why we have a weak regional level in our decentralization system.

[00:07:48]I've given you two examples.

[00:07:51]Don't ever think that Ghana can remain or will remain Ghana forever.

[00:07:57]Ghana, like almost all African countries with the exception of the special of Ethiopia and Liberia, are artificial or Ghana is an artificial colonial construct.

[00:08:11]But for colonialism, there would be no Ghana.

[00:08:15]In fact, it is most likely that Ashanti would have conquered the rest of Ghana.

[00:08:19]They They had It was the British that stopped them.

[00:08:23]So, when you have an artificial construct like that with a very strong empire, and Ashanti was an empire, and you say you are decentralizing, you must watch what you do.

[00:08:37]Fortunately, we have had very wise Ashanti kings who have not created a problem.

[00:08:42]But if you get an Ashanti king who is troublesome, he can create problems for the nation Ghana. And I've given you two examples.

[00:08:52]When in our youth, when we were schooling, there were no countries like Ukraine or Kyrgyzstan or all those 'stans countries. There was nothing like that.

[00:09:02]There was no Kosovo, no Bosnia and Herzegovina. No.

[00:09:08]There was Yugoslavia, which broke up or which has broken up into six different countries. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, and them.

[00:09:18]Then there was USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which was made up of 15 different republics, each of which was strong enough to become a state. Ukraine was part of the So, we call it the Soviet Union. And Ukraine, in fact, was the intellectual center of the USSR.

[00:09:39]It existed for 70 years, 70 plus years.

[00:09:43]And USSR and then in the late 1990s it broke up.

[00:09:48]And each state went its different way and we got about 15 new countries in the in the world.

[00:09:57]I also made reference to Nigeria.

[00:10:02]Nigeria started off with three big states, northern region, eastern region, western region.

[00:10:09]Each had the population, the land mass, the resources, etc. All they needed was a charismatic leader.

[00:10:18]And then they got one when Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu became the governor of eastern Nigeria.

[00:10:27]He broke away and formed the country Biafra.

[00:10:32]General Gowon who was the head of federal head of the federal Nigeria waged a war which lasted three years before he could keep Nigeria together.

[00:10:42]1966 70 to 1970.

[00:10:45]By the end of that war, 1 million people had died.

[00:10:49]>> [clears throat] >> So the lesson this teaches us is that decentralization is good. But if you don't take care it can be a great danger to the unity of the state.

[00:11:08]And I have explained to you that Ashanti could easily be a country. The Dagomba kingdom could easily be a country.

[00:11:18]We don't want to fashion out a governance system that will give an excuse for Ghana to break up.

[00:11:32]I thought he made a lot of sense. What do you think?

[00:11:36]What do you think? Nkrumah advised us against frag- fragmentalism.

[00:11:42]How many people remember that?

[00:11:43]FRAGMENTALISM.

[00:11:45]IN FACT, NKRUMAH DID NOT EVEN support Togo. He wanted Togo to be part of Ghana.

[00:11:52]DO YOU REMEMBER?

[00:11:55]NOW, HE'S SAYING THAT THE FACT THAT WE HAVE GHANA, AND GHANA IS AN artificial nation.

[00:12:00]Remember we used to have the Ghana Empire?

[00:12:04]And then we named THIS COUNTRY AFTER THAT.

[00:12:07]GHANA IS A BUILT UP AND ARCHITECT OF COLONIALISM.

[00:12:16]The colonial administrator came in and just picked a stick and drew a map and said that this is our colony, and we decide to call it the Gold Coast because we found gold.

[00:12:29]And when the colonialist was going away and gave us a certain kind of independence, we decided to stay together.

[00:12:39]But there were different kingdoms. The Dagomba KINGDOM WAS THERE. ASHANTI KINGDOM was there. ASHANTI WAS A MAJOR conquering empire.

[00:12:50]OH, YES.

[00:12:52]THERE WERE OTHER CONQUERORS LIKE THE Dagombas and much more.

[00:12:59]Today, we all have decided to come together as a republic.

[00:13:04]Put away our individual powers and accept to be decentralized so that we'll be able to come together under one umbrella ruled by one president. That's the republic.

[00:13:25]Tomorrow, the Ashanti kingdom could come out under a troublesome in the West of Professor Ahwoi.

[00:13:35]A troublesome Okyenhene say, "Hey, we don't want to be part of Ghana anymore."

[00:13:40]And it almost happened with the Ashanti.

[00:13:42]Do we all remember NLC?

[00:13:44]National Liberation Movement, NLM, I beg your pardon. NLM.

[00:13:49]Ashanti.

[00:13:50]Barfuor Akoto.

[00:13:52]They wanted to break away from Ghana.

[00:13:55]Do we all remember the Western Togoland?

[00:14:03]They almost broke away.

[00:14:06]IN FACT, EVEN THE NORTH WAS NOT PART of Ghana.

[00:14:11]They had to go in in some parts of the Ewe land to come together.

[00:14:17]Now, those people are going back to their history and they are saying that, "Oh, they would like to return."

[00:14:25]My brother, my sister, it is interesting where we are going.

[00:14:31]And Professor [clears throat] Kwame Ahwoi is saying it clearly.

[00:14:37]Don't let us take this for granted.

[00:14:40]Like it happened in Nigeria with Ojukwu, we can have a Biafra right here in Ghana.

[00:14:51]We can have the Dagombas come out and say they want their own nation.

[00:14:55]We can also have the Ashantis come out and say, "You know what?

[00:15:00]We want our own kingdom."

[00:15:03]So, we must not bring a system of governance that seeks to undermine this decentralization, the republic, and what have you.

[00:15:16]That was what he was talking It's food for thought, isn't it?

[00:15:19]Do we want to remain together?

[00:15:23]That means the national cake must spread and reach everybody equally.

[00:15:29]Number two, do we want to stay together as a nation?

[00:15:33]We must show respect to every single ethnic group and every single region.

[00:15:42]If America has remained united all these years, yes, we can.

[00:15:48]Canada is struggling to break away.

[00:15:51]Quebec wanted to break away from Canada cuz they speak French.

[00:15:58]AND THEY WANT TO HAVE THEIR own nation.

[00:16:01]Remember Ethiopia that broke into two, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan, they were one nation broken apart.

[00:16:10]Ghana can also break apart. We must learn a lesson from how these countries broke apart and why.

[00:16:19]And this man is the architect of the Ghanaian governance system.

[00:16:26]That is why he's worried and he's talking about this.

[00:16:30]Does he make sense?

[00:16:32]It's time to think about it and not take our unity as one cluster for granted.

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