A businessman and Ashanti royal with connections to the Manhyia Palace, Barima Osei Mensah, has been implicated in allegations of proposing love to a 16-year-old girl at his project site in Abuakwa, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region.

Per reports the distraught mother of the girl, whose identity remains confidential, urged Barima Osei Mensah to keep away from her daughter.

The Adinkra Pie CEO, who reportedly boasts about being the next Asantehene after Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, warned the mother not to speak his name disrespectfully, citing his direct ties to the Manhyia Palace.

Barima Osei Mensah, who has ten children with ten different women, has faced accusations from some of these women for neglecting his paternal responsibilities.

In this particular case, the mother of the 16-year-old girl, who attends a school in Kumasi, insists that she only wants the royal to stay away from her daughter.

“I sell at site Barima Osei Mensah Adinkra’s work site. I sell banku there. One of my daughters is in school and she came. She is the eldest so I go with her to sell at his site. So my daughter told me the man who is the boss here using this particular car says he loves me and wants us to date.” the mother cried.

“So I asked my little girl again what exactly he Adinkra said. She said ‘he says he loves me and I should do my mind well and allow him to date me and do to me whatever he wants’. So I told my daughter when you meet him again and he repeats it tell him that I, Yaa, I said he should never say that to you again. He kept approaching her and my daughter will cry and come to me” the mother sadly narrated.

"If you see him, please tell him my little girl whom he proposed to at site he should stop that. She is a little girl he should not do that. He has approached my daughter three times. I sell at his site. I respect him and all I do when I see him is to greet him. I know him very well… He warned me he is from the Palace so they don’t mention his name by heart.

"My daughter is now afraid. When she sees his car approaching she gets afraid something

It remains unclear whether the Manhyia Palace, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and the Ashanti royal family are aware of these alleged actions by individuals associated with the palace.

Reports indicate that Barima Osei Mensah is also involved in a legal dispute with his ex-wife, who accuses him of extortion and blackmail.

Child’s Right International Ghana, the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, and the Paediatric Society of Ghana (PSG) are expected to be petitioned to investigate the matter.