{"id":7809,"date":"2022-08-22T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=7809"},"modified":"2022-08-22T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:40:14","slug":"ga-manshie-climaxes-2022-homowo-with-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=7809","title":{"rendered":"Ga-Manshie Climaxes 2022  Homowo  with Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, last Saturday visited sacred places within the Ga State to sprinkle \u2018kpokpoi\u2019, the traditional corn meal and poured libation to climax this year\u2019s Homowo festivities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clad in red and accompanied by his elders, queen mothers, other sub-chiefs within the Ga State and a large crowd, all clad in red, in a show of massive support, the Ga Mantse sprinkled \u2018kpokpoi\u2019 and poured libation on the sacred graves, amid drumming, chanting of war songs and the firing of muskets.<\/p>\n<p>King Tsuru first visited the King Tackie Tawiah I Royal Mausoleum at Tesano and proceeded to the Accra Brewery Mausoleum, where it is believed King Tackie I was buried.<\/p>\n<p>There, the Ga Mantse toured the entire facility, sprinkled \u2018kpokpoi\u2019 and said prayers for both the living and the dead.<\/p>\n<p>After the two-hour exercise, the procession walked through the central business district of Accra to the Makola Market, where the statue of the late Ga Mantse, King Tackie Tawiah I, is located, amid cultural display.<\/p>\n<p>At the statue ground, King Tsuru poured libation to the departed ancestors and sprinkled \u2018kpokpoi\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the procession continued through the location of the General Post Office, through Salaga Market, Korle We, through the Ussher Fort to the Ga Mantse Stool House.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7810\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/King-Tackie-II-300x132.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/King-Tackie-II-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/King-Tackie-II.png 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peace and unity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The High Priestess at the Ga Paramount Stool House, Ga Manye Afieye, asserted that this year\u2019s Homowo celebration had been more successful and glorious.<\/p>\n<p>She said it was quite different from the previous years and that signified stability, peace and unity within the Ga State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to use this opportunity to wish all Ga communities a happy new year. We hope to meet again in the coming years for such a celebration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She urged the youth in the community to desist from politicising the Ga chieftaincy matter, stating that the Ga Kingdom was bigger than politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will finally appeal to everyone to support the King to be able to develop the Ga community. We can only achieve the development we seek if we are united. We are behind in terms of development due to the dispute and court litigations within the state,\u201d the High Priestess said.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cSome people deliberately fuel and finance some individuals to litigate over some simple issues that could have easily been settled by ourselves. All these will not help us; it\u2019s time for us to join hands together to develop our Ga State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: graphiconline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, last Saturday visited sacred places within the Ga State to sprinkle \u2018kpokpoi\u2019, the traditional corn meal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ga-Manshie Climaxes 2022 Homowo with Unity - Express News Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=7809\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ga-Manshie Climaxes 2022 Homowo with Unity - 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