United Progressive Party’s Akwasi Addai Odike has said until the curse invoked on him is reversed, he cannot go to Manhyia to apologise for his comments.
The politician says the curse has spiritual implications which will cost him should he step foot in Kumasi.
“I can’t go to Kumasi because of the curse. If I go, spiritually I’ll be affected. So until they revoke it, I can’t appear before them. So it is difficult for me to appear before them, even if I decide to apologise,” he told Komla Adom on TV3’s Midday News Monday, August 29, 2022.
Aside from the spiritual effects he feared, he said he could also be attacked physically because of the banishment.
“…And it has spiritual and physical implications.
If anybody sees you around the vicinity, they can kill you and it is believed to be positive defiance. So I don’t have any other means to reach out to the traditional authority to apologise,” he stated.
Akwasi Addai Odike has been banished by the Kumasi Traditional Council for saying the chiefs in the Ashanti Region have endorsed galamsey.
He said he was going to stave a demonstration against them for allowing illegal mining on their soil.
The chiefs invited him over his comments which he refused. Oyerepa FM where he made the comments were asked to halt operation from Friday until today, when the ban was lifted.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
