The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has donated GH₵500,000 to the Ga State as part of efforts to help the Ga Mantse King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II establish an Education Trust Fund.
The Asantehene donated the amount at a special durbar held in his honour by the ruler of the Ga State on Sunday, June 9, 2024.
Speaking at the durbar hosted by the Ga Mantse King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, the Asantehene asked if the Ga State had a trust fund and then went ahead to pledge his support in helping the Ga Mantse establish one.
The fund is to help brilliant but needy students in the Ga State to pursue higher education.
The Ga Mantse hosted the Asantehene on this historic visit to the Ga State.
The visitation forms part of the longstanding bond between the two traditional leaders and their efforts to deepen the relationship between Gas and Asantes.
Asantehene is grateful to the Ga Mantse for the durbar, which he said had several chiefs from the Ga State in attendance.
The durbar of the two gallant royals was also used to promote peace ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections in December this year.
It is also a historic visit and rekindles the strong friendship ties between the Gas and Ashantis.
It also follows Ga Mantse’s active participation in the 25th-anniversary celebration of Otumfuor Osei Tutu II’s ascension to the throne of Asanteman.
He urged the subjects and all chiefs under the Ga Mantse to support their overlord in discharging his duties and bringing unity and stability to the Ga State and the country as a whole.
Meanwhile, the Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, has shared insights into his family’s bond with the Asante King, rooted in his father’s collaborative development efforts with the former Ashantehene, Opoku Ware II, in Manhyia.
He highlighted his father’s academic journey, noting that he earned a scholarship to King’s College in Cambridge for his PhD in Architecture.
Upon completion, his father joined the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology’s Department of Architecture as a senior lecturer, eventually assuming leadership roles within the department and faculty.