A king a village in Ghana who rules his people via Skype, e-mail and phone from Germany, has been the victim of burglary. The thieves reportedly managed to steal four crowns.
The King, Togbe Ngoryifia Cephas Kosi Bansah, 66, rules an area in southeastern Ghana, came home with his German wife, Gabriele, to find out his house had been ransacked.
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. Their value was put at about €20,000 (£15,900).