Background
Doctor Alex Okoampa Fredua Agyeman, as he was privately known before his enstoolment, was born on 22 February 1942, at Asiakwa in eastern Ghana.
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Career
He occupied the stool until his death on 17 March 1999. He was trained at Sofia State University in Bulgaria and Charles University in Prague as a doctor and was one of a new breed of professionals who were eagerly accepted to become the occupants of important stools when they were elected by their king-makers. On his return in 1969, Doctor Fredua Agyeman worked at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and later at the Ridge Hospital until his enstoolment.
His stool name "Kuntunkunuku" was made for the talking drums.
lieutenant was also the name of the very first Akyem king, King Kuntunkununku I (1400 AD). He was said to be destined to rule as, according to an elder at Asiakwa, the Okyenhene, Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, saw a handsome young policeman at Asiakwa as he drove through the town.
That young man was Okoampa, Kuntukununku"s father. He continued to practise after his enstoolment (though he dropped the title of Doctor, as being unsuitable to his position), and was able to make a start on the modernisation of the government hospital at Kyebi.
Such was his reputation that he was elected to two consecutive three-year terms as President of the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs, and from 1998 as President of the National House of Chiefs, numbering more than 5,000 in all.
The reign of the King Osagyefuo Kuntunukunuku saw some development in the Royal Akyem kingdom particularly in the educational sector. A number of educational institutions were established during his reign as King of Okyeman. The then Atiwa constituency (now Atiwa District) of the kingdom, which hitherto had no second cycle institution, saw the establishment of the Kwabeng Anglican Senior Secondary and Technical School, Akyem Sekyere South.D.A. Senior Secondary School and the Anyinam Saint Paul"s Vocational Institute.
The Abuakwa Constituency (now Abuakwa north and south constituencies) also saw the establishment of the Akyem Asafo Senior Secondary School, Kyebi Technical Institute and the Kyebi Vocational, among others
Economic activity was also enhanced with the establishment of numerous gold mines in the traditional area during the reign of the Osagyefuo. Kuntunkunuku never took kindly to the environmental problem created by the gold mines.
In 1995, he visited the Kwabeng Goldenray Mining Company to ascertain for himself complains of the people of Kwabeng and surrounding villages about the pollution of water bodies in the area as a result of the surface gold mining of the company. King Osagyefuo Kuntunkununku II was married with six children, including a set of twins.
Membership
He was also a member of the Consultative Assembly, which in 1992 drew up a new constitution for Ghana. He was also a member of the Council of State.
