The Ga Mantse, Nii Tackie Tawiah III, seems to be on a collision course with the President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, following what he describes as the latter’s deliberate sidelining of him and other Ga Chiefs. He has, therefore, launched a rather vile attack on the President and some of his advisors, labeling them as "standard seven boys." Nii Tackie Tawiah III virtually hit the roof and denigrated the President for totally ignoring his clout and that of other Ga chiefs by refusing to invite them to state functions since he took office in 2009. According to him, it is time the President discards the notion that he (the Ga Mantse), was installed by the NPP government; therefore his (Mills') administration will never be associated with him. He accused the Mills’ administration of deliberately sidelining him and sought to remind President Mills that Ga chiefs are not fools to be sitting in Accra and not be invited to state functions. “The President of the Republic of Ghana is so fully persuaded that the NPP had installed the Ga Mantse, the least he can do is provide evidential proof. He must be able to tell us how this manifested….He more than anybody else knows that this is an impossibility… Additionally, we’re not fools sitting in Accra, because the President cannot proceed on the basis he is doing,” he averred. A visibly angry and highly agitated Nii Tackie Tawiah opened up to what he perceives as injustices being perpetuated by the Mills’ administration against the Ga State during an exclusive press briefing held after a durbar of chiefs at the Ga Mantse’s palace over the weekend. The Ga Mantse accused President Mills’ of embarking on a deliberate ploy to place some Ga traditions on its reduced priority list since coming to power, and issued a rather stern note of caution asking the President not to be deluded into thinking that he can change anything that has to do with the people of the Ga state. “…When he read the….State of the Union Address…no Ga chief was present, because none was invited. If this was not the case, he should tell us. We also are aware that there’s been a deliberate effort of government not to carry out any of our traditions, that is why no libation is poured on any state occasion by the Wulomei… Whatever he does, he must remind himself that this state is for the Ga’s, and he cannot change that,” he warned. Nii Tackie Tawiah III virtually derided and poured invectives on President Mills’ advisors when he labeled them as “Standard Seven Boys” and charged the President to use his background as a Law Professor to get to the bottom of issues, especially Chieftaincy matters, otherwise he will be “allowing himself to be fooled". “If you have a Head of State who is a Professional lawyer…a great deal is expected of him and it is also expected that he will not yield to counsel from “Standard Seven Boys”, but would use his background to at least find out from those who are legible about the institution of chieftaincy in the Ga state to investigate and give him a report… Any President doing anything short of this is misleading himself and allowing himself to be fooled by his own circumstances,” Nii Tackie Tawiah III stressed. Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana