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Saibi Enkwiá added by way of threat, 'The King said, if the Governor would not order the return of Owusu to Kumasi, he would attack the Assins. He further explained that these Assins were the people who always caused 'palavers' between the Ashantis and the Protectorate, to which they belonged. Naturally the ignominious demand was refused.
Prince Bwáki explained that 'mistakes had been made, but that the mistakes had not been alone those of his king and son-in-law. He declared that the messenger, Saibi Enkwiá, had exceeded his powers in threatening Assin. The King, he said, had sworn by 'God and earth, that is, by the 'spirits' above and by the ghosts below, that he had sent no such message.
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He was accompanied by Saibi Enkwiá, who had signed the treaty at Fománá, a village in Assin, between Kumasi and the Bosom Prah River. The envoy formally demanded possession of Prince Owusu and of one Amangkrá, an Ashanti trader who had aided him to escape.
About mid-February the 'situation' notably changed. Messieurs Buck and Huppenbauer, two German missionaries who were making a 'preaching-tour, reported from Kumasi that King Mensah was afraid of war, and that his kingdom was 'on the point to go asunder. The despot, with African wiliness, at once threw the blame of threatening Assin upon his confidant, Saibi Enkwiá.
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