Okyenhene reacts to 'Agyapadie' document and says it is total fiction fabricated to fan hatred
The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has reacted to a document titled “Agyapadie,” which is currently in circulation and says it contains a total fiction, which has been fabricated to fan hatred against the Ofori Panin household and Okyeman.
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He said it has been fabricated as if it was all part of Ofori Panin Fie’s grand scheme to fleece Ghana and that the document, containing fabricated, revised and concocted allegations, was meant to fan the flames of hatred against the Akyem people.
He explained that the genesis of the document/book, which started in 2016, was a desperate move by some political schemers.
Addressing a council meeting of the Akyem Abuakwa State on Saturday [July 27, 2024], the Okyenhene said some people are deliberately working to denigrate Okyeman and make Akyems look evil in the eyes of the public.
But such people must remember that they have family too and will they be comfortable if such palpable lies are said about them and their generation, he questioned.
Treat document/book with contempt
The Okyenhene said the document/book, which has his [IOkyenhene] photograph on the cover page, had been coming up prominently anytime elections were close, starting from the 2016 elections.
Then in October 2020, he said the schemers revised the book and renamed it “Agyapadie” because the schemers saw the Agyapa Gold transaction as a major political weapon.
Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin has therefore called on his kinsmen and Ghanaians to treat the book with the contempt it deserves.
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No reasonable person in his right frame of mind hatches such an intention and documents it with his image as a cover page, he said.
He indicated a similar thing was thrown around during the period of J. B. Danquah and the same thing is being seen now.
In and around October 2016, about a few months to the election, the same document known as the ‘Akyem Project’ was in circulation.
The focus of that was to fan hatred between Okyeman and Asanteman to undermine the electoral efforts of Nana Akufo-Addo, he said.
Unfortunately for the schemers, he said it emerged that too prior to the general elections.
“This diabolic plan was revised in 2019. In the year 2020 when the Agyapa business became a political issue, the book suddenly metamorphosed into ‘Agyapadie’” he said.
Prominence
The Okyenhene added that prior to President Akufo-Addo coming into power, the Ofori Panin Fie was more prominent and had not done anything extraordinary over the last 25 years.
He said the Eastern Region had more representation in former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s cabinet than Akufo-Addo adding that all the hullabaloo going on was targeted at causing disaffection towards the Akyem people.