Custodians Of Akwamu Kingdom Orders Cease And Desist
NOTICE OF TOTAL LACK OF LEGAL, CUSTOMARY, AND SOVEREIGN CAPACITY TO EXECUTE COVENANTS, TREATIES, STATE CONTRACTS, OR ARTICLES OF UNION ON BEHALF OF THE AKWAMU KINGDOM AND THE AMANPON GUA (BLACK STOOL)
TO:
- The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Republic of Ghana
- The Akwamu Traditional Council, Akwamuman
- The National House of Chiefs and Eastern Regional House of Chiefs
- All Government Agencies, Municipal/District Assemblies, Financial Institutions, International Bodies, Investors, and the General Public.
TAKE NOTICE that the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family, being the founding, indigenous, and inalienable bloodline custodians of the Akwamu Amanpon Gua (Black Stool) and the historic Akwamu Kingdom, hereby issues this absolute and irrevocable CAVEAT EMPTOR to all local authorities, international entities, state actors, and the general public across the historical territories of the Akwamu Kingdom, including the modern states of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, regarding the strict limitations placed upon the occupants of the palace, Nana Afrakoma II and Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III.
1. JUDICIAL AFFIRMATION OF CUSTODIANSHIP (4TH MAY 2022)
The general public is explicitly reminded that on the 4th of May 2022, the Supreme Court of Ghana formally ruled that the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family are the sole, authentic custodians of the Akwamu Amanpon Gua (Black Stool). Under modern constitutional and ancient customary law, this means the underlying title, property rights, and sovereign spiritual inheritance of the Akwamu Kingdom remain exclusively vested in the Yaa Ansaa bloodline.
2. TOTAL LACK OF CAPACITIES TO BIND THE NATION
Because the occupant is a Regent from a non-founding caretaker lineage, HE POSSESSES ZERO ANCESTRAL, CUSTOMARY, CONSTITUTIONAL, OR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL CAPACITY to sign, execute, ratify, or seal any permanent agreement, treaty, contract, commercial lease, covenant, or Article of Union on behalf of the Akwamu Kingdom as an indigenous state, or the Amanpon Gua Black Stool.
3. RETROACTIVE DECLARATION OF FRAUD (BEFORE AND AFTER 4TH MAY 2022)
The general public is explicitly notified that any lease, indenture, international treaty, state contract, concession, or legal document signed, endorsed, or executed before and after the 4th of May 2022 is legally fraudulent if executed under:
- The absolute title or misrepresentation of “Paramount Chief (Akwamumanhene/Omanhene)” instead of explicitly as ”Regent Paramount Chief (Regent Akwamumanhene/Omanhene)”; OR
- The absolute title or misrepresentation of “Paramount Queen Mother (Akwamumanhemaa/Omanhemaa)” instead of explicitly as “Regent Paramount Queen Mother (Regent Akwamumanhemaa/Omanhemaa)”.
The occupants executed these instruments knowing full well, continuously since 1940 and both prior to and following the 4th May 2022 ruling, that their presence in the palace is strictly restricted to a temporary regency tenure. Operating with complete, actual knowledge that they are not descendants of the true Yaa Ansaa Royal Maternal Bloodline, their deliberate acts of holding themselves out as absolute Paramount Rulers constitute a material, lifelong misrepresentation of the Akwamu Stool and a direct fraud under the Chieftaincy Act of modern Ghana. Consequently, all documents executed under these false capacities are legally tainted by fraud, deemed void ab initio (void from the beginning), and carry zero legal weight.
4. EXCLUSION FROM CUSTODIANSHIP POWERS AND ROYALTY COLLECTIONS
The representative powers of the Regents are strictly representation of the stool in person, administrative and temporary in nature. Under modern constitutional frameworks and ancient customary law, a regent possesses no underlying ownership of the sovereign seat. Absolute Custodianship Rights over ancestral assets, state boundaries, stool properties, spiritual heritages, and ancestral stool lands remain exclusively and inalienably vested in the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family. The Regents are traditionally and legally barred from altering, transferring, encumbering, selling, or collecting any royalties derived from these assets, lands, and mineral rights.
5. ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION ON UNILATERAL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS
The Government of the Republic of Ghana, its ministries, agencies, departments, and local assemblies are explicitly notified that they do not possess any legal, administrative, statutory, or customary right to act on behalf of, negotiate for, or execute binding agreements in the name of the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family without the express, prior, written consent of the true Heads of the Bloodline (the Abusuapanyin and the Abrewatia). Any unilateral state interaction or compromise that attempts to bypass the family leadership is illegal, non-binding, ultra vires, and directly violates indigenous rights frameworks.
6. CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CEASE-AND-DESIST FOR INTERNAL IMPOSTERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all individuals, factions, or unauthorized proxies who have in the past, are currently, or plan in the future to falsely represent themselves as holding the capacities of Abusuapanyin and/or Abrewatia of the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family bloodline. Any such unauthorized use of these sacred customary titles to manipulate courts, sign proxy deals, or mislead state registries is fraudulent, illegal, and a severe breach of lineage integrity. All such persons are hereby ordered to CEASE AND DESIST from these fraudulent misrepresentations immediately. Anyone who continues to falsely represent the bloodline will be pursued with full legal rigour and held personally and financially liable for the costs, damages, and criminal consequences of their actions.
7. APPLICABILITY TO THE SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES IN TOGO AND BENIN
This Public Notice explicitly covers and binds all ancestral, territorial enclaves, royal houses, and historical diaspora divisions of the ancient Akwamu State extending into the modern sovereign territories of Togo and Benin. Traditional rulers, state officials, and cross-border commercial entities within these francophone jurisdictions are cautioned that the Regents at Akwamufie lacks the sovereign authority to execute cross-border customary treaties or land pacts. The sovereign custodianship of Akwamu’s transnational heritage rests solely with the Head of the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family, at Mano.
8. DEFECTIVE ROOT OF STATE TITLE & CO-TERMINOUS TREATY COLLISION
Official certified archival records recently obtained from the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) confirm that the 1886 Aquamoo Treaty of Cession was never ratified, meaning the British Crown never legally acquired or absorbed Akwamu’s domestic sovereignty. Furthermore, this document was signed on the same day as the international Anglo-German Agreement of 1886, rendering the local instrument and the international treaty conflicting, un-executable, and completely void under public international law frameworks. Consequently, the Republic of Ghana inherited a defective root of title, and its state registries hold no authority to grant or recognize executive contract-making powers to a non-bloodline regent over an unceded kingdom.
9. NOTICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ILLEGALITY
The general public is further notified that the administrative gazetting of the occupants was pushed through by lower registries completely without the knowledge, signature, or consent of the Adontehene of Akwamuman, who has been out of the jurisdiction on continuous medical leave since 2012. This structural failure renders his state validation null, void, and currently subject to a formal Application for Review under Article 133 of the Constitution before the Supreme Court of Ghana.
WARNING TO ALL PARTY SIGNATORIES
In light of the Supreme Court’s 4th May 2022 ruling confirming the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family as the true, lawful custodians of the Black Stool, any corporate entity, international body, government ministry, or individual who has chosen to sign, or chooses to sign, any contract, land agreement, lease, or pact with Nana Afrakoma II and/or Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III does so ENTIRELY AT THEIR OWN RISK.
The Yaa Ansaa Royal Family declares all such purported signatures, executions, transactions, or unions to be ultra vires, void ab initio (void from the beginning), and completely non-binding on the true bloodline heirs and future leadership of the Akwamu State. The family reserves the right to pursue full civil, criminal, and international legal remedies against any violating parties.
BY ORDER OF:
THE HEADS OF THE YAA ANSAA ROYAL BLOODLINE
ABUSUAPANYIN: HRH DUKE OF AKWAMUFIE NANA KWABENA ASARE
ABREWATIA: HRH DUKE OF AKWAMUMAN KWAME ANSA SASRAKU.
SPOKEPERSON: HRH PRINCESS BARBARA VANDROSS OF AKWAMU
For and on behalf of the Yaa Ansaa Royal Family
Mano, Akwamu Kingdom
DATED THIS 22ND DAY OF MAY, 2026.