On 26th April, 1999, my good friend, Barima Kwaku Duah, a royal of the Osei and Opoku royal family and a fellow member of the Oyoko clan, became Asantehene, as the 16th occupant of the Golden Stool, taking up the name of the founder of Asanteman and 1st Asantehene, the legendary Opemsuo Osei Tutu, to be called Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, following in the line of the great Asante Kings.