Barima Nana Akwasi Agyeman was a Ghanaian civil servant and a member of the Asante Royal family who served as Mayor of Kumasi serving as Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly.
[1] He continued in that capacity through the presidency of Hilla Limann in 1979 to 1981 and also during the era of Jerry John Rawlings till he was replaced in January 2001 by Maxwell Kofi Jumah.
[13][12][14][1][15] He was a member of the National Democratic Congress and considered as a close confidant of Jerry John Rawlings.
[9][18] Agyeman also served as a special envoy in his latter days in the public sector to Jerry John Rawlings whilst he was in government.
[17][15] Agyeman died 14 January 2020 at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi after an illness.