[ 2011-06-13 ]

Nii Tackie Adama Latse II, left and King Tackie Tawiah III

New Ga Mantse takes over palace
The rival Ga Mantse installed Sunday, Nii Tackie
Adama Latse II has taken over the Ga Mantse Palace
at Kaneshie in Accra.

There were no reports of any confrontation in the
takeover process.

It is also unclear the whereabouts of the ruling
Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah III.

Reports say his supporters are amassing in some
parts of Accra to march to the palace to eject the
occupying Ga Mantse because the police had failed
to act.

Nii Boye Abe, the Spokesperson for the ruling Ga
Mantse has confirmed that their supporters are
gathering to march to the palace.

He said the takeover of the Ga Manste's Palace was
a coup d'etat which cannot be tolerated.

Nii Abe discounted claims that King Tackie Tawiah
III abandoned the Palace ignominiously.

He explained that the Ga Mantse does not live in
the Palace and that it cannot be the case that he
was displaced by his rival Boni Nii Tackie Adama
Latse II.

Joy News' Nana Asuman who is at the Ga Mantse
Palace, reported the palace is unusually calm with
the rival Ga King and his people settling in.

There is not a single visible police officer in
the palace but the police say they have
plain-clothed policemen monitoring the situation.


The rival King, known in private life as George
Tackie, is a UK-based businessman and was in Ghana
for a holiday when he was captured, confined and
installed as the Ga Mantse by some Ga kingmakers,
as a successor to the late Ga Mantse, Nii Amugi
II.

The installation was in fulfillment of a promise
by the Gbese Mantse during the lifting of the ban
on drumming and noise-making that a new Ga Mantse
would be installed.

He claimed that while King Tawiah had been
parading himself as the Ga Mantse, majority of Ga
children were out of school - a situation he
deemed unacceptable and which must be reversed.

But King Tackie Tawiah's spokesperson said the
installment of Nii Adama Latse II is a
contemptuous act.

He told Joy FM's Super Morning Show host, Kojo
Oppong-Nkrumah the Greater Regional House of
Chiefs had ruled that King Tackie Tawiah could not
be prevented from performing his duties a Ga
Mantse.

Nii Boye Abe said to install a new Ga Mantse in
spite of this ruling was to show gross disrespect
of the laws of the land.

He believes the law is on the side of the ruling
Ga Mantse.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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