The Nana Amon Kwame and Kwasi Amoani Oyoko Royal families’ accredited elders from Odumase (Kodjo Fosu) and Akwamu Akwatin in the Eastern Region have strongly warned Madam Akua Owusu Afriyie, Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to China, to stay away from their land located at Odumase popularly called Panpanso.
According to the family elders, documentary evidence accessible to them suggests that Madam Akua Owusu Afriyie’s assertions that she took the 100 acres of land at odumase [Panpanso] in the name of the government to carry out its flagship scheme One-District-Factory (1D1F) were utter lies and cooked statements to gain her fictitious points.
They claimed that information at their disposal indicated that Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to China had surreptitiously chosen to seize the land from the family, ostensibly to carry out her building projects.
To clear the air, the elders and members of the Royal family of Amon Kwame and Kwasi Amoani are informing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government about the Deputy Ambassador to China’s erroneous claim to the said land without following the proper measurements and procedures.
They said that their forefathers paid around 1000 pounds for the 5068-acre plot of land in Odumase (Kodjo Fosu) in Ayensuano District from the then chief of Apedwa Nana Kwasi Jachi in 1897.
“The chief of Apedwa in the name of Nana Kwasi Jachi received the delegation from the Oyoko Royal family led by Nana Amon Kwame and Nana Kwasi Amoani from Odumase (Kodjo Fosu) to take every needed necessary thing to forever own these track of lands even in the law court in the following years including 1909 (Yao Ntikora verse Teacher Mante, Amon Kwame and ten others, 1913( Amon Kwame verse Kwame Obregyamah, Tetteh Ashong and four others), 1922(Amon Kwame verse Tetteh Ashong, Kwame Obregyamah and ten others), 1924 (Amon Kwame verse JJ.OCQUAYE and AMON QUAO) and 1924 (Amon Kwame verse Ayitey),” they explained.
They claim that during the Gold Coast era, all of these issues were heard by the Supreme Court, where Amon Kwame claimed victory by citing bits of documented evidence that were kept in the national archives.
They pointed out that the 5068-acre land legally became property to Nana Amon Kwame and Kwasi Amoani to be precise on behalf of the Oyoko royal family of odumase (Kodjo Fosu).
According to the members and elders of the family, they haven’t met any government official to hand over their land to him or her.
They stressed that the actions of Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to China, Madam Akua Owusu Afriyie to claim the ownership of the said land is a completely fraudulent act and called on President Akufo-Addo to call his Deputy Ambassador to China to order or else she would incur their wrath.
They accused the Deputy Ambassador to China of faking documents to own the land in her interest due to her current position in government.
“We are the owners of the land, and we have all the proper, genuine and legal documents that show clear evidence that indeed the land is the bonafide property of the Oyoko Royal family from Odumase, (Kodjo Fosu)” the elders stressed.
They explained that the Oyoko royal family has given power of attorney to one William Asante Agyekum Acquah who is one of the great, great-grandchildren of Nana Amon Kwame and Kwesi Amoani who were the owners of the land.
Additionally, they disclosed that the descendants who had the power of attorney were Nana Asante Agyekum Aqual and Nana Amoani Darko the current chief of Odumase.
According to the descendants, they are informing the government to wake up to this issue before the people of Odumase lose trust in the government.
“The deputy ambassador to China is not fairly dealing with us. We are not ready to release our land to her for any developmental projects from the government because of her dubious character.
“We are warning her that she should stay away from the land because we are for peace and will never release our land to her”.
According to the elders and members of the Oyoko Royal family from Odumase( Kodjo Fosu) “We have already given the said land to a developer by the name China Man, so we don’t want to have anything doing with the said Ghana’s deputy ambassador to China on that land.
“We never want to see the said Ghana deputy ambassador to China,(Madam. Akua Afriyie) because that said land as indicated above is meant for Islamic university by china Man”, they concluded.
