Ga Dzase Clashes With Ga Mantse

By Samuel Boadi

THE OFFICE of the Ga Paramount Stool Dzase yesterday vented its spleen on Nii Tackie Tawiah III, Ga Mantse, for what it described as the unguarded utterances and insinuations of the latter to the Presidency recently.
Led by Nii Yaote Oto-Ga, Ga Paramount Stool Dzasetse, members of the Ga Dzase, entirely clad in red and chanting war songs, registered their displeasure to the media and rendered an apology to President John Evans Atta Mills on behalf of all people of Ga “for the unwarranted effusions against the highest office of the country.”
“We wish to state categorically that the Ga paramount Stool Dzase, the only legitimate and customarily mandated and recognized body of king-makers of the Paramount Stool have not at any time installed anyone as Ga Mantse since the demise of our illustrious Boni Nii Amugi II, for the Ga State.”
“Therefore anyone parading himself as ‘Ga Mantse’ is illegitimate and does not have the authority and mandate of the Paramount Stool Dzase. We wish to advise the general public and all state institutions that presently there is no accredited Ga Mantse on the Royal Stool. Any reference or attribution to the position presently to any person is wrong and flies in the face of the sensibilities of Ga peoples and all references to a ‘Ga Mantse’ must cease forthwith.”
Further underlining their position on this matter, the Ga Dzase said “the installation of a Ga Mantse without our initiation, direction, participation and approval, is null and void ab-initio and of no consequence.”
According to Nii Oto-Ga, the present public outcry against the actions and unguarded utterances of Nii Tackie Tawiah clearly vindicated the Dzatse’s position that is pertinent to undergo appropriate traditional rites and education, which included grooming, public speaking, comportment, right behaviours and attitudes for the occupant of the stool.
“Due to the falsehood and clandestine haste that characterized the purported enstoolment of the false claimant, these were blatantly ignored…We condemn in no uncertain terms his posturing for recognition that he does not deserve. He is so persuaded by his inordinate and vain ambition such that he is totally unaware that he is betraying his utter frustration and fatal desperation.”