The Omanhene of Akwamu Traditional Area, Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III has denied allegations that he has received some GHS 20 million as compensation for communities who suffered as a result of the construction of the Akosombo Dam in 1966. He was reacting to allegations by one Alex Ofei Agyeman, president of the Akwamu Youth Association, that the GHS 20 million captured in the 2010 Auditor General’s report as compensation paid to Paaso (GHC10 million) and Ahamade (GHC10 million) in the Akwamu Traditional area, have been received by some five persons secretly on behalf of the Traditional Council but not used to benefit the victims. He mentioned those five as Akwamuhemaa Nana Afrakuma II, Acting President of the Traditional Council, Nana Amo Bekai, Abusuapayin Asare Antwi of the Royal Aboabo Family, the Registrar of the Traditional Council, Gilbert Larbi, led by the MP for Asuogyaman Constituency, Mr. Joses Asare Akoto. Alex Agyeman has therefore filed a suit against the Akwamu Traditional Council demanding that the court make them account for the said moneys. But Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III told Adom News no such moneys have been received by the aforementioned people on behalf of Akwamufie. He said the Auditor-General’s report captured moneys paid to Paaso, which is actually Apaaso, and Ahamade, which is a group of villages in Akwamu, as having received those moneys, but nowhere did the report mention Akwamufie. The Paramount Chief of the Akwamu State said at the date the money was said to have been paid to Apaaso and Ahamade, there were disputes in Akwamu and each community was chasing after the moneys separately, so the Traditional Council could not have gone to collect moneys on behalf of everyone. He said on hearing the allegations in the media, he set up a four member expert committee of people who hail from Akwamu and they found documentary evidence to the effect that the Apaasohene has collected GHs 400,000 on behalf of Apaaso and Ahamade, but no evidence of GHS10 million paid to the two communities or to anyone from Akwamu Tradional Area. “As far as I am concerned those moneys have not been paid at all so we need to find out how it got captured in the Auditor-General’s report in the first place,” he said. The Chairman of the committee, Mr. Godfred Akyea-Darkwa, told journalists compensation for those affected by the construction of Akosombo Dam were in three categories namely, movement and settlement; farmlands and flooded areas. He said the Auditor-General’s Report did not provide any remarks to say specifically which of the three the supposed payments were meant for, adding that nowhere did the report say moneys were paid to Akwamu. Mr. Akyea-Darkwah challenged any one with evidence to the contrary to provide them. He said the accusers of the Akwamu Traditional Council are fake and are only trying to destroy the unity of Akwamu under the new Chief, adding that the so-called Akwamu Youth Association which Alex claim to be the president of, does not exist.