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Bonkers African Tribe in Scottish Woodland Claiming Ancestral Rights

141 replies

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

OP posts:
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.

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 10:09

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?

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.

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.

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

Notmymarmosets · 02/10/2025 10:12

Bonkers is an excellent word!

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.

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

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.

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 👌

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"?

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"?

FaitesVosJeux · 02/10/2025 10:26

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

🙄

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.

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.

newusernamex1000 · 02/10/2025 10:27

From what I have read, they have all overstayed their visas. They have also threatened numerous locals.

MaloryJones · 02/10/2025 10:29

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"?

I have mental health problems
You don't speak for Me thanks !
Christ, who thought words would cause meltdowns in the 21st Century ? Its really pathetic

WildFlowerBees · 02/10/2025 10:29

Christ the vipers are out this morning 😬

Ablondiebutagoody · 02/10/2025 10:30

FaitesVosJeux · 02/10/2025 10:26

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

🙄

Really lame that you can't explain what you wrote. But then it was nonsense, so to be expected.

MaloryJones · 02/10/2025 10:31

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:27

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.

I think you know what Wind your neck in means .
I know you have the Right as do I .

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:32

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:26

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.

Well if you are happy to denigrate your illness by calling yourself "bonkers" no one can stop you.
You aren't doing yourself any favours,you arent doing people with mental health issues any favours , and you aren't doing women any favours - yet another woman who can be dismissed as irrelevant because she is just " bonkers".

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:34

newusernamex1000 · 02/10/2025 10:27

From what I have read, they have all overstayed their visas. They have also threatened numerous locals.

Yes they need to be deported swiftly. I dont know why things like this are allowed to play out. Lots of solicitors fees are involved no doubt.

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:36

MaloryJones · 02/10/2025 10:29

I have mental health problems
You don't speak for Me thanks !
Christ, who thought words would cause meltdowns in the 21st Century ? Its really pathetic

Seriously?
You really think words don't matter?
How do you think people are controlled by politicians? How do you think people's views points arent manipulated by the media? Why is advertising a multi million pound industry?
It's done by WORDS. By the language used.

And you are right I can't speak for you. But it's very sad if you denigrate yourself by describing your mental health issues as just you being " bonkers".

soupyspoon · 02/10/2025 10:36

Bringitonicancope · 02/10/2025 10:32

Well if you are happy to denigrate your illness by calling yourself "bonkers" no one can stop you.
You aren't doing yourself any favours,you arent doing people with mental health issues any favours , and you aren't doing women any favours - yet another woman who can be dismissed as irrelevant because she is just " bonkers".

Theres a man in the mix isnt there, He is also bonkers. Im not denigrating myself, I dont take myself that seriously.

Bonkers is a perfectly acceptable description, its not a medical term, its a laymans colloquial descriptor for people being irrational and unhinged. People who make no sense. People who are bizarre and weird. Bonkers.

Im not at work, Im on a chat forum.