Kingmakers and heads of the four ruling houses of Ga Paramount Stool in the Greater Accra Region have denied the enstoolment of Tackie George Adama Latse as Ga Mantse under the stool name King Tackie Adama Latse.
Consequently, they have given him a 14-day ultimatum to vacate the Ga Stool House at Abola Tunma We and the Ga Mantse Palace at North Kaneshie, since he has never proven his lineage to any royal gate of the four ruling houses.
“We hereby give George Abia Tackie, purportedly known as Adama Latse, an ultimatum of 14 days (from the date of this conference) to leave the Ga Stool House at Abola Tunma We and the Ga Mantse Palace at North Kaneshie alone since he has never proven his lineage to any royal gate of the 4 ruling houses,” they warned.
Failure by Adama Latse to adhere to the ultimatum, the kingmakers warned, will compel them to order their gods to deal ruthlessly with him.
Addressing a press conference in Accra yesterday, GaDzasetse & Principal Kingmaker of Ga Paramount Stool, (Dr.) Nii Tetteh Kwei II, who acted as the spokesperson, further cautioned Adama Latse to stop parading himself as Ga Mantse.
According to him, it was important that Adama Latse stopped calling himself Ga Mantse because his gazette had been appealed against at the Appeals Court in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
Furthermore, he added that the kingmakers have initiated moves to have Adama Latse’s name expunged from the National Register of Chiefs.
According to him, Adama Latse cannot be the Chief of Ga State.
The reason, Dr. Nii Tetteh Kwei pointed out, was because Adama Latse does not hail from any of the four royal ruling houses that constitute Ga Paramount Stool Dzase.
To this end, the kingmakers called on all state institutions and the general public to stop doing business with him.
They also recounted that on Sunday, August 2, 2015, GaDzasetse of the Ga State, Dr. Nii Tetteh Kwei and the accredited heads and elders of the Ga Paramount stool customarily and constitutionally enstooled Dr. Kelvin Nii Tackie Abia as the new Ga Mantse under the stool name King (Dr.) Tackie Teiko Tsuru II to succeed the late Nii Amugi, who was a substantive Ga Mantse.
They lamented the fact that Ga State has been bedeviled by many challenges charaterised by greed, selfish acquisition and sale of lands.
They indicated that although a new Ga Mantse has been installed, they were still dealing with certain bunch of “recalcitrant and unmitigated traditional imposters” who were enjoying support from certain honourable individuals in civil governance, “but whose attitudes betray their honourability.”
“We are hereby empowered by the 2nd February, 2015 ruling, given by the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs (GARHC) in the aspect of the installation of a Ga Mantse, to elect and install a Ga Mantse after having put all the houses in order and to do the proper thing.
They, therefore, indicated that based on the 2008 Ruling of the GARHC, the act and process of installing Adama Latse was void and a nullity and that George Abia Tackie cannot be Chief of the Ga people.
“It is a sacrilege and that would not be condoned by the Ga Paramount Stool Dzase being the legitimate custodians of the Ga Royal Stool,” the averred.
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