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Bonkers African Tribe in Scottish Woodland Claiming Ancestral Rights

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ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 09:14

I mean at best this story is utterly bonkers. A pair of chancers with a string of scams behind them and a now dropped child cruelty charge, set up home in private Shottish woodland claiming the land was stolen from their ancestors 400 years ago. There's not a shred of evidence to substantiate this claim.

The so called Kingdom of Kubala. One from Ghana, one from Zimbabwe and one from Texas, I mean that's a pretty wide Ancestral gene base for them all to have been descended from, but hey ho.

Headed by career scammer Kofi Offeh and his dodgy as fuck partner Jean Gasho, aka King Atehehe and Queen Nandi, earlier this year they paid for a one way ticket to fly a vulnerable 21 year old Texan girl named Kaura Taylor to the UK who became their so called handmaiden 'Asnat'. Her family claim they started grooming the aspiring lawyer online when she was 19. This is blatant coersion and control being played out on the national news.

After being evicted from private land they set up another camp just over the fence on council land making a mockery of the authorities and seem untouchable. They have now been evicted for a second time. There is a whole history of the two main characters being involved in scams of one kind or another, in one of which they claim to be millionaires and in May this year they flew over their equally delusional 'Handmaiden' from Texas to keep their tent clean for them. Millionaires who live in the bushes and will only speak to reporters in exchange for offerings or Irn Bru and Tunnocks Tea Cakes it seems.

The poor girl seems utterly brainwashed. Her mother is now pleading with the authorities to deport her daughter back to America. How exactly has this farce been allowed to continue in a Scottish Woodland for so long? Surely there's an immigration issue at the very least with the young girl this bonkers King and Queen paid to fly over to the UK? I mean can anyone just fly over from Texas and stay here indefinitely?

This whole tale is absolute madness. I mean what the actual fuck? Am I being unreasonable or should this whole shit show have been stamped on months ago & the 21 year old been put on a flight straight back home to keep her away from this pair of freaks? My greatest worry with her is these scammers will bring her straight back here to continue coercing and controlling her as soon as she is returned home.

Madness.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3yp4rvp18o

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Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:27

MaloryJones · 02/10/2025 10:14

Oh wind your neck in
People like YOU see racism everywhere
Can people not state FACTS now ??

Jeez

I take it wind my neck in is a euphemism for Shut up?
I've got a right to express my opinion even if you don't like it.
There is nothing wrong with having a thread about the story. It's the tabloid take on it by OP which makes it objectionable.

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:26

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:21

I really really take issue with people calling other people " bonkers".
People with mental health issues have always had to fight labels such as " bonkers".
I thought in recent years we had made progress in not using such derogatory language.
Obviously not so judging by this thread.
I wonder if the people involved had purported to be a an ancient Anglo Saxon tribe OP would have described them as " bonkers English tribe"?

Im bonkers, I have MH issues and now peri on top. So more bonkers than usual

Yes, bonkers English tribe, bonkers Italian tribe, bonkers Liverpudlian tribe

They're very ill or certainly PD, toxic behaviour, children have been harmed in the mix of their lives in the past (now removed), more children will come into that mix.

FaitesVosJeux · 02/10/2025 10:26

If you need to ask that/make that point then it's most definitely you with issues.

🙄

Ablondiebutagoody · 02/10/2025 10:23

FaitesVosJeux · 02/10/2025 10:10

Yeah - until it's your vulnerable child being kept and controlled by nutters. You're either being deliberately disingenuous or - no, actually - you are being deliberately disingenuous and maybe a little bit thick.

What do you mean by "nutters"? And is that different to "vulnerable"?

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:21

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:09

They are bonkers, they are African and they say they are a tribe together from another ancient tribe

What is inaccurate about OPs title therefore?

I really really take issue with people calling other people " bonkers".
People with mental health issues have always had to fight labels such as " bonkers".
I thought in recent years we had made progress in not using such derogatory language.
Obviously not so judging by this thread.
I wonder if the people involved had purported to be a an ancient Anglo Saxon tribe OP would have described them as " bonkers English tribe"?

BoudiccaRuled · 02/10/2025 10:21

The way you've written it @ClutchingPearlz it could be a now banned Monty Python sketch from the 80s, absolutely brilliant 😂
Obviously it's a ridiculous but also serious matter, but your reporting of it is 👌

DarkPassenger1 · 02/10/2025 10:16

I'm not convinced it isn't performance art. I saw a video Jean uploaded of her 'teaching' Asnat to clean a table using lemon and ashes lol. They were so visibly self-conscious of being filmed and performing, kept going on about the stainless steel table and how important it is and the centre of their 'home' haha. It was so funny.

Winter will take care of the situation.

MaloryJones · 02/10/2025 10:14

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:03

It is one thing to call a story " bonkers" .
It's totally another to call people " "bonkers".
And to call a tribe of people defined by their nationality " bonkers" smacks of racism.

Oh wind your neck in
People like YOU see racism everywhere
Can people not state FACTS now ??

Jeez

Kerrisk · 02/10/2025 10:12

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:09

They are bonkers, they are African and they say they are a tribe together from another ancient tribe

What is inaccurate about OPs title therefore?

Because people think crazier shit every day. The issue here is illegal camping and possible exploitation of a vulnerable young adult.

Notmymarmosets · 02/10/2025 10:12

Bonkers is an excellent word!

LadyoftheMercians · 02/10/2025 10:12

LoveWine123 · 02/10/2025 09:55

Why do you care? You've written a whole literary work on the topic.

I believe op has copied the article from the bbc

LadyoftheMercians · 02/10/2025 10:11

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 09:53

Well I knew about thei story and had read a little bit about it and it's very very strange.
But I do take issue with your thread title " Bonkers African Tribe" because it just reeks of racism.

Edited

I dont think it is racism (obviously only my view) because its stating a "fact" - they are bonkers, they are African, and they are calling themselves a tribe.

FaitesVosJeux · 02/10/2025 10:10

Ablondiebutagoody · 02/10/2025 09:36

Live and let live. I can't really get worked up about 3 people camping.

Yeah - until it's your vulnerable child being kept and controlled by nutters. You're either being deliberately disingenuous or - no, actually - you are being deliberately disingenuous and maybe a little bit thick.

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:09

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 09:53

Well I knew about thei story and had read a little bit about it and it's very very strange.
But I do take issue with your thread title " Bonkers African Tribe" because it just reeks of racism.

Edited

They are bonkers, they are African and they say they are a tribe together from another ancient tribe

What is inaccurate about OPs title therefore?

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 02/10/2025 10:09

Why are they referred to as a 'tribe'? They are clearly two mad people who have abducted an American girl. I bet she ends up pregnant.

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:08

Ablondiebutagoody · 02/10/2025 09:36

Live and let live. I can't really get worked up about 3 people camping.

Well as someone said on another thread please open your home and garden to them then, it will save tax payers a fortune

Have them shit and piss and leave their waste all over your land

Have them experience toxic DV on your land and in your home

Have one of them get pregnant and put a child at risk (again) on your land.

Go on, give the Scottish authorities a ring and let them know when they can drop them off.

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:08

ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 10:05

And it’s bonkers that these people actually think they are a lost African tribe. Next? Why don’t you all stop attacking the poster and perhaps have an opinion on the actual story?

I've given my opinion on the story: that from what I'd read about it it's very very strange.
But I don't go around calling people "bonkers".

ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 10:05

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:03

It is one thing to call a story " bonkers" .
It's totally another to call people " "bonkers".
And to call a tribe of people defined by their nationality " bonkers" smacks of racism.

And it’s bonkers that these people actually think they are a lost African tribe. Next? Why don’t you all stop attacking the poster and perhaps have an opinion on the actual story?

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ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 10:04

Kerrisk · 02/10/2025 10:02

But why not call your thread ‘Vulnerable US immigrant exploited by scam artists’ then?

Why don’t you let other posters decide what to call their threads? Stop being coercive.

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Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:03

ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 09:56

It is bonkers.

It is one thing to call a story " bonkers" .
It's totally another to call people " "bonkers".
And to call a tribe of people defined by their nationality " bonkers" smacks of racism.

ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 10:03

LoveWine123 · 02/10/2025 10:00

You show care by writing a post on a forum?

And how are you showing care?

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Kerrisk · 02/10/2025 10:02

ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 10:00

Why don’t you care about the brazen coercive control of a vulnerable person who is clearly being exploited? We all should. It’s disgusting,

But why not call your thread ‘Vulnerable US immigrant exploited by scam artists’ then?

PraisebetoGod · 02/10/2025 10:02

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 02/10/2025 09:45

I think it matters if a vulnerable young woman is being coercively controlled and potentially exploited.

We don't yet know the full story but I am inclined to believe the young woman's mother.

Absolutely we don't have the full story so how on earth have you decided that the mothers version is correct?

Ablondiebutagoody · 02/10/2025 10:02

LoveItaly · 02/10/2025 09:55

I bet you would if it was in your back garden or just outside your house.

Correct. But they're in the woods. I used to enjoy a bit of wild camping too when I was younger.

ClutchingPearlz · 02/10/2025 10:02

Boap · 02/10/2025 09:59

I’ve dipped into this TikTok hole recently, absolutely nuts cult like behavior from a pair of abusers, I worry for the young American woman.

I did too. It really is completely nuts and they are clearly abusers. I thought we had a certain view on that sort of behaviour on here but a lot of people seem quite relaxed at this coercive behaviour. I also worry about the American girl.

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