The King Who Rules His People Via Skype

 

Meet King Togbe Ngoryifia Céphas Kosi Bansah, the 66-year-old king of the Hohoe area of south--eastern Ghana, who governs his people via Skype.  He became the king of Hohoe in 1987, after the death of his grandfather, who was the reigning king. Sources says “he was chosen over his elder brother and father because both are left-handed, an attribute that his people believe is unclean and indicative of dishonesty.”

Reports state that Bansah runs a garage in Germany, but still finds time to govern the 200,000 people of Hohoe via Skype and telephone calls, often staying awake all night to rule and settle tribal disputes. King Togbe  has also been in the news lately for being a victim of burglary, he travelled back to Ghana only to find out his house had been ransacked; thieves have managed to steal four crowns. The thieves took almost all his royal regalia, including crowns and golden chains, from his house in Ludwigshafen.

“Thieves had come [sic] over the balcony on the first floor, prised the door open, smashed the cabinets and ransacked everything,” Cephas Bansah told the UK’s Times newspaper. The stolen items are several hundred years old and irreplaceable.

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