Information reaching The New Crusading GUIDE indicates that from the four royal ruling houses of the Ga State in the Greater Accra, the accredited Kingmakers and Elders of Ga Paramount Royal Stool, will soon put decision on who becomes a new Ga Mantse after the demised of Boni Nii Amugi Sroosi II, in December 10, 2004.
The decision, the paper gathered, would go a long way to put to rest the agitation by the feuding factions vying for the the Ga Paramount Royal Stool.
This, according to sources, follows the final ruling at the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs-Dodowa which declared the Ga State as being without a properly installed Ga -Mantse (Chief).
The ruling which was intercepted by this paper pointed out that, "The Four Royal Ruling Houses, That is Abola Piam, Teiko Tsuru We, Amugi We and Tackie Commey We, should put their house together to do the right thing."
The situation, this paper learnt, has compelled the Kingmakers and the Ga Dzaase Council to stake their grounds ready to install a new Ga- Mantse so as to put to rest the many blunders and slurs casted by some people they described as "opportunists" on the Ga Stool.
However, this paper has been informed that Ghanaians and the indigenes of the Ga State in particular are anxiously waiting for this move, as the kingmakers are struck by a serious dilemma in nominating the legitimate candidate who will help turn the chieftaincy fortunes of the Ga State around.
Sources close to Ga Paramount Royal Stool disclosed to the paper that the choice for the Ga Mantse ahead of this year's Homowo will come out of four names.
George Nii Adama Tackie-Abia, Henry Nii Ayitey Aryeetey, Kelvin Tackie, Nii Kuja Okine, according to sources are the four persons from the Aropong Division of Abola, shortlisted to be screened for the position as Ga Mantse.
Sources have confirmed that the choice of a new Ga Mantse would “certainly come from this shortlist, as the four gentlemen are those the Kingmakers and Wolomoi of Ga Paramount Royal Stool have been considering for some time now”.
Information is that, the Ga Dzaase Council, a well constituted body formed to oversee the nomination and installation of the Ga Mantse, will screen these four personalities for the position.
But sources close to the Djaase (Kingmakers) and Wolomei are pointing one Kelvin Tackie from the Akropong Division-Accra of the Nii Tackie Tarwiah lineage as the legitimate candidate and fit to be enstooled, as the new Ga Mantse, Today can report.
A highly-placed source close to the Ga Paramount Royal Stool hinted this paper that Kelvin Tackie is the grandson of the late Ga Mantse, Boni Nii Amugi Sroosi II, who died in December 10, 2004.
The nomination of Nii Tackie brings to three, the number of persons that have made claims to the position of the Ga Mantse in recent times including Nii Tackie Oblie II (Nii Ayitey Canada) and Nii Tackie Adama Latse II (George Tackie) who was installed some years ago.
Though the Ga state is currently being ruled by Nii Adama Latse II, information picked up by this paper from sources close to the legitimate kingmakers indicates that, the Ga State "has nominated Nii Tackie, whom they claim to be the legitimate person to replace Nii Adama Latse."
Upon the request, the sources hinted this paper that, the kingmakers in consultation with the head of the Ga Paramount Royal Ruling House, Teiko Tsuru We nominated a grand-son of the late Boni Nii Amugi Sroosi II for the position of a Ga Mantse and presented him to Ga Paramount Royal Stool Dzaase.
According to sources, when the Ga Paramount Royal Stool Dzaase finishes his work on the candidate, the Ga Dzaase and Kingmakers would present him to the Ga state for the final installation and out-dooring as the substantive Ga Manstse of the Ga State.
Sources warned that “chieftaincy-related disputes remained the most serious threat to political stability, peaceful co-existence, and human development in the country. Any individual who attempts to sow a seed of discord in the Ga state will live to regret.”
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