Kingmakers to install Teshie chief in December

Ex-W.O 1 Henry Nii Sowah Otinkra, Head of the Nii Klu Din We, has announced that a new chief of Teshie would be enstooled in December, 2018.

He made the announcement in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra and stated that all the necessary arrangements are in place for the enstoolment after a reconciliation meeting between the two gates on who becomes the Mankralo of Teshie.

Ex-W.O Otinkra said Tsitsi-tse Nii Okang Duamro Nmashie IV, known in private life as Benjamin Nii Nmai Sam Sowah, was later outdoored as the new Mankralo of Teshie, which he explained does not qualify to be a Mankralo of Teshie and this resulted in confusion in the area.

The Head of the family said Mr Benjamin Nii Nmai Sam Sowah announced at a family meeting that, he was no more interested in the position of Mankralo and had thrown his support to Jonathan Adjetey Adjei as the Mankralo of Teshie with the stool name Nii Okang Duamro Nmashie III.

The last chief of Teshie, Nii Ashitey Akonfran, passed away in 1985, and since then the town has been without a Mankralo and a chief.

The vacuum created by the absence of a chief, led to numerous disputes in the past.

He said as a result of the altercations, the kingmakers of the three gates of Nii Klu Din We, Nii Adjei Okon and Nii Okang Duamro and Principal elder of Nii Nmai confirmed Jonathan Adjetey Adjei as the Mankralo of Teshie with the stool name Nii Okang Duamro Nmashie III.



He said this was in a letter signed by the Heads of the family of the three gates to the Registrar of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs in Dodowa dated October 10, 2016.

The kingmakers who signed the letter include Ex W.O 1 Henry Nii Sowah Otinkra, Head of the family of the Nii Klu Din We; Nii Adjetey Otinkorang I, Principal Elder of Nii Adjei Okon; Nii Adjei Tinkum, Principal Elder of Nii Okang Duamro; and Charles Nii Klu Adjei, Principal Elder of Nii Nmai.

He said Nii Adjetey Otinkorang I, the Dzasetse of Nuumo Nmashie Family of Krobo Teshie, performed the cleansing rites on Nii Okang Duamro III to affirm him as the Mankralo of Teshie, and was witnessed by the elders and youth of the community.

Nii Otinkorang I said there was a case before the Regional House of Chief at Dodowa and a fact finding committee has been established for arbitration.

He said the Committee established that the position of Mankralo rotates among the three gates and that Nii Klu Din We, one of the three gates has eight houses of the Krobo Quarter namely Nii Okoh Gate, Nii Okang Gate, Nii Nmai Gate, Nii Ashia Gate and Nii Botwe Gate.



The Committee established that the stool is a patrilineal inheritance.

Nii Okang Duamro III, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on his vision for the community, promised to unite the people of Teshie under one umbrella since peace and unity was critical in utilizing the potential of human resource for infrastructural development.