To say that the recent putsch against the Ga-Mantse, Nii Tackie Tawiah III (a. k. a. Dr. Joe Blankson), by partisans of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by Dr. Josiah Aryeh, was embarrassing is to grossly understate the obvious. And the obvious, of course, is the fact that it was both petty and unforgivably uncouth.<\/p>\n
And as one respectable and urbane Ga chief put it, the laid-down protocol of effectively and legally destooling Nii Tackie Tawiah III, through the institutional verdict of both the Greater-Accra and the National House of Chiefs was flagrantly flouted. And the latter state of affairs does not augur well for the integrity, stability and the respectability of the chieftaincy institution in the Ga traditional state.<\/p>\n
For me, though, what is both interesting and significant about the rather uncivilized process by which the \u201cAryeh Gang\u201d went about the entire affair, as widely reported in the media, is the dastardly attempt by the NDC faction of the Ga paramountcy to genealogically alienate Nii Tackie Tawiah III from the stool that he has been occupying for the past four years.<\/p>\n
On the latter score is the rather ambiguous claim that since his kinship to one of the three traditional stool-houses of claimants of the Ga-Mantse stool is, allegedly, on the distaff \u2013 or mother\u2019s \u2013 side of his family, perforce, Nii Tackie Tawiah III is, somehow, unreservedly disqualified from occupying the Ga-Mantse stool.<\/p>\n
Nothing could be further from the truth of historical reality. And, indeed, as one of his backers pointed out, the specific determination of who occupies the Ga stool, or any traditional Ghanaian royal stool, for that matter, belongs to that lineage whose turn it is to present a candidate for the same.<\/p>\n
In this particular instance, we are told that Nii Tackie Tawiah is the legitimate and duly selected representative of the Teiko Tsuru We or lineage, whose turn it is to occupy the Ga-Mantse\u2019s stool. Evidently (and I stand to be corrected), having apparently run short of \u201csuitable\u201d candidates, and the keyword here of \u201csuitable\u201d is worth highlighting \u2013 as not just about anybody with kinship ties to one of the three main Ga royal stool-houses can ascend the same \u2013 the Teiko Tsuru We chose the patently legitimate alternative of putting forth the candidacy of Nii Tackie Tawiah III.<\/p>\n
In essence, what the supporters of the new Ga-Mantse, Nii Tackie Adama Latse II, have succeeded in doing is to set the dangerous precedent of effecting the arbitrary and capricious removal of any sitting Ga-Mantse whenever any faction of the three familial claimants to the Ga-Mantse stool (a fourth family has recently been named, by the way) feels aggrieved, regardless of whether such grievance is justifiable or not.<\/p>\n
And, of course, what the latter course may well engender is a protracted state of civil strife and mayhem that is almost guaranteed to considerably arrest the stability and development of the Ga traditional state. It is precisely because of such contingency that it becomes imperative for both the Greater-Accra House of Chiefs as well as the Ghana National House of Chiefs to promptly come out with an official statement categorically denying any recognition to Nii Tackie Adama Latse II, until any hostilities and\/or outstanding disputes are legitimately resolved by the appropriate institutional apparatus.<\/p>\n
As for Mr. Josiah Aryeh\u2019s rather presumptuous assertion that \u201cThe snail-paced approach\u2026adopted by the Greater-Accra Regional House of Chiefs,\u201d which is statutorily mandated to resolve chieftaincy disputes in the Ga-Dangme state, necessitated the unorthodox and primitive removal of Nii Tackie Tawiah III, the simple riposte is that unless the NDC partisans of Nii Tackie Adama Latse II promptly regain their rational faculties, there is certain to be a heavy price to pay by all the key players involved in this early morning desecration of the peace and quiet of the Ga state, as it were. Anyway, at the time of this writing, a third claimant to the Ga-Mantse stool had just announced his incumbency.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, there is an ironic twist to the raging Ga chieftaincy crisis; and it is the fact that the stool-names of both contestants contain the Akan masculine name of \u201cTakyi\u201d or \u201cTechie,\u201d otherwise corrupted or, perhaps, Anglicized as \u201cTackie.\u201d And the fascinating thing about this is that none of the members of the \u201cAryeh Gang\u201d seems to be worried about the fact that the Ga, being patrilineal, would so glaringly decide to canonize a matrilineal Akan name as a bona fide, or legitimate, Ga royal identity.<\/p>\n
Of course, the point being instructively stressed here is that hot-headed people like Dr. Josiah Aryeh \u2013 whose surname, by the way, is also indisputably of Akan extraction \u2013 are too busy being vacuously partisan \u2013 to recognize the stark fact that when all is said and done, the hermetic and fanatical pursuit of nativism could well undermine the cultural and familial authenticity of the trouble-maker himself.<\/p>\n
May the real Akwamus of the Ga royal stool-house stand up, please?<\/p>\n
Cheese!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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