God Should Protect You To Live Long To Save And Feed Us! ---Thausands Of Ga Children Commend Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II
According to them, since the installation of His Royal Majesty King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II by the Principal Kingmaker of Ga State, Nii Dr Tetteh Kwei II, the delusional citizen of Ga state has demonstrated that he cares for lives and development of the youths in Ga Dangbe communities of the Greater Accra Region.
Freeman Koryekpor 
Thousands of children in Ga state in the Greater Accra Region have called for God's protection for the life of the Paramount Chief (Ga Mantse) of Ga State, His Royal Majesty King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II to live long to help save their lives and feed them with food.
According to them, since the installation of His Royal Majesty King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II by the Principal Kingmaker of Ga State, Nii Dr Tetteh Kwei II, the delusional citizen of Ga state has demonstrated that he cares for lives and development of the youths in Ga Dangbe communities of the Greater Accra Region.
The Ga children made this commendation when the Ga Mantse organised a 2023 New Year’s Day party for over one thousand and five hundred children from the Bukom and Ga Manshie areas in Accra.
The children came from the Ga State areas including the General Post Office, Methodist Church Hansen Road, Akoto Lante, Bukom Square, Ga Mashie, High Street, Usher Fort and Ga Stool House on Tackie Tawiah Road.
The annual event organised by the Ga Mantse is to put smiles on the faces of children in the area, especially the less privileged ones.
The New Year Children’s party is to also strengthen relationship between the children and the Ga Mantse and to bring hope to the Ga Child.
The annual children’s party with His Royal Majesty started from Bukom as King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II walked the children to the Ga Black Stool House, fetes them and gave them gifts.
Christened “Kinka Blonya”, children’s party,”the occasion was characterized by drumming, dancing and singing of traditional songs as well as the display of rich Ga culture and tradition.
The children at the ceremony were welcomed by King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II with the pouring of libation in line with the Ga customs and traditions.
The New Year’s Day celebrations was an event for the Ga Mantse to extend pleasantries to the people as part of the ‘Blon Bii Nya’ meaning people from the horizon and Kusum Gbo/Blema Kpaa nor atsaa which has been with the Ga state over the years.
Addressing the gathering, King Teiko Tsuru pledged to support the education of less privileged children in communities within Ga State to secure better future for them.
He said the education of children was important to the Ga Paramount Stool hence the decision to support such children.
He urged parents and children who were facing financial challenges to avail themselves for the necessary assistance to be in school.
He said: “Kinka Blonya is not going to be food and drinks only. The education development of the Ga Paramount stool is key. Every child of school going age must be in school and so, if you know that your parents are unable to afford your educational needs, tell them to bring you to the Ga Mantse Palace for the necessary assistance.”
The Ga Mantse expressed very serious worry about the low level of standard education among the children, particularly the girl-child in General Post Office, Methodist Church Hansen Road, Akoto Lante, Bukom Square, Ga Mashie, High Street, Usher Fort and Ga Stool House on Tackie Tawiah Road.
He continued that “Our Girl-Child is becoming an endangered specie. And very soon the girl-child livelihood will be extinct. Let us all rise from the ashes to secure their future and make the Ga State great and strong again.”
He stressed the urgent need for corporate Ghana and individual philanthropists to aid and support Ga Mantse Girl Child Project that will be launched before the end of this year.
According to him, education was one of the most critical areas for the empowerment of women as the Cairo and Beijing conferences affirmed.
He stressed that offering girls, basic education, was one sure way of giving them much greater power which enables them to make genuine choices adding that “this is backed by the convention on the right of a child and the convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) against women as a basic human right.”
He noted that an educated woman always has the skills and confidence to become a better parent, worker and a citizen.
“An educated woman is likely to marry at a later age and have fewer children. Cross country studies show that an extra year for schooling for girls reduces fertility rates by 5 to 10 per cent.
King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II contended that, that situation informed his decision to decide to campaign for the girl-child education in the Ga state.
This, according to him, was aimed at empowering them to become great women for their communities and the nation as a whole.
He stated that the girl-child campaign would involve the various communities, opinion leaders, organisations that advocate for child education and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that share in the same vision.
In order to ensure that every Ga child enrolls in school, the king pointed out that strategies have been put in place to have statistical data on the Ga school-going children.
Madam Grace Coleman, a representative from the Social Welfare Department of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), advised the children to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the King to achieve their career goals.
“Education is very important, I know there is free education in the system so I urge you all to pay attention to your education because you can realise your potential and talent through education, which will make you responsible citizens and that is when our communities will develop, ” she said.
Hundreds of children were treated to food, drinks and music at the Bukom Park, James Town in Accra.
The children played with bouncing castles, trampoline, slides and had their faces painted.
Children who attended the programme expressed satisfaction and prayed for more of such programmes.
