Kwaku Bonsam Opens Up on People who Come for Juju: "About 25 Women Come Everyday"

Ghanaian traditional priest, Kwaku Bonsam, has claimed that the majority of people who walk through his door seeking spiritual help are married women who are losing their husbands to younger girls.

In an interview with Joy Prime, Bonsam, one of Ghana's most prominent and outspoken spiritualists, stated that about 25 married women visit him daily for what is commonly referred to as "juju", spiritual intervention aimed at keeping their partners faithful and in love.

"Women come more. Looking at the statistics, about 25 married women visit me every day. Most of them want their partners to love them so much. These days, young school girls are snatching people's husbands," he said.

However, Bonsam noted that he does not always give them what they ask for.

Rather than turning to charms and incantations, he said he often sends women back with simpler, and perhaps more uncomfortable, advice ot taking better care of themselves.

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"It's not the spiritual charm; it's the dressing," he said, pointing to cases where a younger woman's looks and presentation had drawn a man's attention away from his wife. "She changed her hair, did her nails, wore a enticing outfit."

He argued that physical self-care, far from being vanity, plays a genuine role in sustaining romantic relationships, one that many couples underestimate or ignore altogether once they settle into marriage.

At the same time, Bonsam was careful not to reduce love to appearances. He cautioned that looks alone cannot hold a relationship together and urged couples to invest in character above all else.

"In marriage, you don't look at the physical. Look at the heart," he said. "Beauty fades with time while love and a good heart endure."

The comments have drawn fresh attention to the quiet but widespread phenomenon of married Ghanaians, particularly women, seeking spiritual remedies for relationship problems, even as traditional priests like Bonsam increasingly blend spiritual counsel with what sounds, at times, like practical relationship advice.

Source: YEN.com.gh