No family owns land in Ashanti kingdom, all are mine – Asantehene warns
Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has expressed his sentiments at Chiefs and heads of families over the indiscriminate sale of lands in the Ashanti Region.
According to him as the overlord of the Ashanti Kingdom, he is the custodian of the lands and not individual families and not even the court has the authority to rule over lands in the region.
He has also sent a strong word of caution to encroachers of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology lands where he is the Chancellor, to put a stop to such practice.
Asantehene sent the word of caution at the launch of the 70th-anniversary celebration of the university in Kumasi on Wednesday, October 27.
The year-long celebration is on the theme “KNUST: 70 years of global impact; A new age for a renewed focus”.
“Let me use this platform to highlight a very disturbing development which has come to my attention in recent times. That is the encroachment on university lands.
“I condemn it in no uncertain terms and strongly send a note of caution to all those involved to desist from it or face my wrath. Let me warn the communities, the chiefs and whoever, that the lands are mine and you are just caretakers to those lands.
“There is no family land here in Ashanti no Abusuapanin can claim that the land belongs to him and therefore he has the right to alienate a portion of the University land at all.
“You can go to any court, take it there I am sure also there will be a judge who will know that the constitution and the constitution of Asante says that there is no Family land in Ashanti and therefore get the lawyers to take you to court but I will get the court to also turn over the decisions to affirm my authority on the land.”
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