Prempeh was the Asante king, or "Asantehene", of the late 19th Century who resisted British demands that his territory be swallowed up into the expanding Gold Coast protectorate.

“I just didn’t want my life to be swallowed up by my work,” the 46-year-old star of M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie “Trap” said in a Guardian interview published Sunday.

Worldwide, rising sea levels and increasing urbanization represent a formula for disaster, with more and more people seeking to live on land that will, at some point, be swallowed up by the sea.

But that distrust could make it easier for the island to be swallowed up.

Ms Robison said much of that would be swallowed up by increased pay for NHS staff, and the funding would not follow through to the next financial year.