History of
Abeka

Nuumo Apiakai, also known by his names George Boye, Okyeame Boye, Okyeame Apiakai, and by his birth name Yaaboi Boye, is the patriarch of the Nii Boi Royal Family of Abeka. According to his own testimony in the 1966 consolidated High Court judgment (Robertson v. Nii Akramah II & George Boye, Suits L.232/61), he was born at Ofankor. He was the last born of his father's children, with four elder siblings: Yarley Boye (1st), Yartey Boye (2nd), Yarkor Boye (3rd), and Yarkaa Boye (4th). Yaaboi Boye (5th), the last born, is Nuumo Apiakai himself.

The Origin of Abeka Village

According to the 1966 judgment testimony of George Boye (Nuumo Apiakai), the village of Abeka was founded by a woman called Abeka who came from Anomabo. The Asere Mantse granted her permission to found the village. When she died, Abeka Kwame took charge of the village on the instructions of the Asere Mantse Boi, becoming the custodian responsible for managing the settlement and collecting tolls. All tolls collected at Abeka were sent to the Asere Stool and shared based on agreement between the Asere authorities and the Abeka custodians. Since Madam Abeka founded the village, Abeka has never gone out of the hands of the Asere Stool.

Nuumo Apiakai's Service to Asere

George Boye served as an Asere land overseer for approximately 30 years before being elevated to the position of the most Senior Linguist of the Asere Stool. Based on the judgment date of September 1966, he stated he was made a linguist "20 years ago" (around 1946), and before that he had been a land overseer "for about 30 years." He had known the village of Abeka "for about 50 years" (since around 1916). The land on which he built his house at Abeka was given to him by Nii Ayi Tagoe, Acting Asere Mantse. He built a house at Abeka "10 years ago" (around 1956) and went and lived there "8 years ago" (around 1958). He also rebuilt the Abeka market when the old one fell into ruin, and made a cemetery there.

A labeled photograph from this era shows him alongside Nii Akramah II (Asere Mantse, 1958-1974) in full traditional regalia. The 1966 judgment refers to him as "the linguist George Boye," the earliest court document to name him directly. In the same case, a witness (P.W.8 Charles Kparnie Addy) testified he bought land at Abeka from Yaaboi for £100, confirming Nuumo Apiakai was actively granting land under the name Yaaboi.

He had six wives in total. Five produced descendants who became the five royal houses that govern Abeka chieftaincy to this day: the Akwaley Anan house (2nd wife, carries the stool and provides the kingmakers), the Korkor Addei house (1st wife), the Naa Ayerley house (3rd wife), the Naa Shomee house (4th wife), and the Esther Otua Otu house (5th wife). The 6th wife's line produced a son who had no children, leaving that house empty.

In total he fathered nine sons and fourteen daughters, twenty-three children. His sons in birth order: Edward Kweipe Boye (1st), George Kwei Boi (2nd, later George Kwei Boi, First Stool Father), Nii Boi I (3rd, Winchester Tettey Boye, First Abeka Mantse), Henry Boye Snr (4th), Henry Boye Jnr (5th), Nii Aban Boi (6th, Second Stool Father), Nii Boi II (7th), Alex Nii Boye (8th), and Kweipe Boye Jnr (9th).

As the settlement grew, Nuumo Apiakai put forward his son Winchester Tettey Boye (Nii Boi I) to take over the political and secular aspects. Nii Boi became the face that dealt with neighbouring factions, signed the early external papers, and eventually established the formal chieftaincy line. This political office was built entirely on the land his father had originally established. His son George Kwei Boi (Nii Kweipe Boi I) was appointed First Stool Father on 14 February 1968, overseeing the safekeeping of the stool and traditional governance.

Nuumo Apiakai also gave land for the founding of the Abeka Methodist Church to his niece, Madam Lydia A. Adams, who became the church's founder. The stool name "Apiakai," carried today by Dzaasetse Nii Apiakai I (enstooled 2013), preserves Nuumo Apiakai's name within the living chieftaincy structure.

According to testimony by D.W.6 Nii Ayi I (Bubiashie Chief) in the 1966 consolidated High Court case, his father Bamule was authorised to found Bubiashie No. 2 in 1912. It was approved by the Asere Stool to take charge of the place.

Bubiashie No. 2 forms boundary with Abeka, Odorkor and Kaneshie, all Asere lands. The town grew when the railway line was constructed through it, eventually comprising 2,000 to 3,000 houses. The well called Na Bubii is the fetish that the people of Bubiashie worship every year.

Nii Ayi I was elected by the people in 1949, installed by Nii Akramah II in 1964, and recognised by the government on 15 January 1965 as a Divisional Chief under the Asere Stool. No Djorshie people have land at Odorkor.

According to the 1966 consolidated High Court judgment, the Abeka and Bubiashie area was occupied by the armed forces under Emergency Regulations during the Second World War in 1939. Nii Amassah Nikoi Olai was then head of the Nikoi Olai family.

After the war ended, the huts and buildings put up on the land were left to Nii Amassah Nikoi Olai. When the government wanted to acquire the land for the Wireless Acquisition area in the southern end of the green area on the plan, Nii Amassah Nikoi Olai submitted a claim in respect of the area on behalf of the plaintiff's family. Nii Teiko Ansah, the then Asere Mantse, also submitted a claim.

D.W.15 Sulo ana Quaofio, a farmer at Bubiashie, testified that before the war a whiteman came, built a house, and put bamboo poles in front. He said they wanted a place to train people to defend them. The people who came to develop the area destroyed all his farms and built around his cottage. He received £11 compensation for his house and £38 for the farm. Later the Army left him three houses.

The earliest documented court case involving the Abeka stool: Suit No. 209/48, John R. Quartey vs. Nii Boi Quatey and Others. This colonial-era proceeding, filed in the Ga Native Court of the Gold Coast Colony, concerned land rights and boundaries in and around Abeka. It demonstrates that Abeka's land holdings were already the subject of formal legal contestation before Ghanaian independence. Full party details and outcome are being compiled from Ghana National Archives records and PRAAD civil suit bundles.

On 22 November 1951, Justice Jackson gave judgment in Transferred Suit No. 31/1948 (Nii Amassah Nikoi Olai v. James Adams and others, with the Asere Stool as Co-Defendant). The court ruled that the Nikoi Olai family was entitled to seven-eighths (7/8) of the compensation money from the Wireless Acquisition area.

This judgment went on appeal first to the West African Court of Appeal and further to the Privy Council, whose judgment was delivered on 24 July 1961 and has been tendered in evidence as Exhibit "B." The Supreme Court of Ghana adopted this by certificate dated 26 November 1961, tendered as Exhibit "B(1)."

The Wireless Acquisition area is situated in the Bubiashie area of the Mukose land. This case established the chain of authority that would be cited in every subsequent Abeka land dispute.

According to testimony given in the 1966 consolidated High Court case (Suits L.232/61), Winchester Tettey Boye, the 3rd son of Nuumo Apiakai (George Boye), was born in Accra and went to live at Abeka in 1954. He was made chief of Abeka by the people of the town and his father, the linguist George Boye (Nuumo Apiakai), on the authority of the paramount chief. His customary presentation to the Asere Mantse was still pending at the time of the 1966 case.

In 1956, Winchester Tettey Boye served as Secretary to the Abeka Stool, demonstrating that the administrative structures of the chieftaincy were being formalised even before his full recognition as Mantse. He was later gazetted as Nii Boi I, the first formally recognised Abeka Mantse.

Ghana's independence on March 6, 1957 transformed traditional governance. The Chieftaincy Act and subsequent legislation placed chieftaincy institutions within a new constitutional framework. The Ga Traditional Council — the body to which Abeka's stool is accountable — was formally constituted under Ghanaian law. Abeka remained within the Asere Division of the Ga Traditional Area. Under the late Nii Boi I (Winchester Tettey Boye), the settlement had by this time solidified its identity as a distinct community, with the Nikoi Olai and Onamrokor Adain macro-landholder families actively defining the outer borders of the Abeka corridor.

Nii Amon Kotei, as head of the Nikoi Olai Stool Family, brought this foundational action after members of the Abbetsewe family purported to sell Mukose land to a Lebanese trader in 1947 with Asere Mantse consent.

The Privy Council of England ruled in favour of the Nikoi Olai family, establishing a landmark principle: "The usufructuary title of the subject of the stool is not a mere right of farming with no right to alienate. Native law or custom in Ghana has progressed so far as to transform the usufructuary right into an estate or interest in land which the subject can use and deal with as his own, so long as he does not prejudice the paramount stool's allodial title."

This Privy Council ruling, affirming the Nikoi Olai family's full estate in the Mukose lands, is the bedrock authority cited in every subsequent Abeka land case, including Okoe v. Horhomeno III [1987-88] 1 GLR 434 and Robertson v. Reindorf [1971] 2 GLR 289-307.

Felix Kotei Robertson of the Nikoi Olai family brought four consolidated suits against Nii Akramah II (Asere Mantse), George Boye (Nuumo Apiakai, referred to in court as "the linguist George Boye"), his son Winchester Tettey Boye (later Nii Boi I), and others. The case was built upon the 1961 Privy Council judgment affirming the Nikoi Olai usufructuary title over the Mukose lands.

Defendants across the four suits included: Nii Akramah II (Asere Mantse), George Boye, W.T. Boye (Winchester Tettey Boye), Emmanuel Darko Dimson, E. Borio & Co. Ltd., Emmanuel Cofie Otoo, and Victoria Dede Otoo. The plaintiff's attorney was Mr. Ashalley Okoe.

Key testimony from Winchester Tettey Boye (Nii Boi I): he was born in Accra, went to live at Abeka in 1954, and was made chief of Abeka by the people of the town and his father, the linguist George Boye, on the authority of the paramount chief. In 1956 he served as Secretary to the Abeka Stool. He admitted that quarry receipts at Anorkuma were given out by his father.

P.W.8 Charles Kparnie Addy, an engineering assistant, testified he bought land at Abeka from Yaaboi (Nuumo Apiakai) for £100. P.W.9 Edward Akwei Addo of the Accra-Tema City Council produced Exhibit "15" from the Solicitor for Nii Akramah II dated 27 March 1957, stopping quarry payments to the Nikoi Olai Family.

The judgment confirmed that the paramount title of the Asere Stool was undisputed, but the Nikoi Olai usufructuary rights over the Mukose lands, as affirmed by the Privy Council, remained intact. This case is the earliest court record placing George Boye (Nuumo Apiakai) and Winchester Tettey Boye (Nii Boi I) as active custodians of Abeka.

The Asere Stool Plan was tendered as evidence, showing the boundaries of the Mukose lands and surrounding Asere territories. The original judgment is PRAAD-authenticated (Certificate dated June 2022, Public Records and Archives Administration Act 1997, Act 535).

The government issued Executive Instrument E.I. 124 of 1969 purporting to compulsorily acquire Abeka land for government infrastructure, schools, and playgrounds, including the Abeka/Israel enclave area where Anne's Preparatory School stands. Backed by the Lands Commission, developers asserted this acquisition wiped out Abeka/Asere traditional roots. But the state never: (a) published the acquisition on three consecutive newspaper occasions as required by State Lands Act 1962 s.2, nor (b) compensated the Abeka/Asere title holders. These twin failures would later be found fatal in Rockson v. Agadzi (1987).

To resolve the massive border overlaps between the Dome and Mukose sectors engulfing the Abeka corridor, the Court of Appeal relied on official survey coordinates in the landmark case Robertson v. Reindorf, reported at [1971] 2 GLR 289-307. The court demarcated the Mukose-Dome boundary, applying res judicata from Reindorf v. Amadu. Official Survey Plan No. X907, drawn by the Survey and Mapping Division of the Lands Commission, physically implements this judgment, locking Abeka's geographic grid into the state archives permanently. Two years later, Robertson v. Nii Akramah II [1973] 1 GLR 445-463 confirmed that non-parties aware of these proceedings are equally bound by the settled boundary.

Under General I.K. Acheampong's Supreme Military Council, E.I. 61 of 1975, signed on 23 April 1975, acquired a 1,100-acre tract from the late Nii Boi I, the entire master perimeter defined by Survey Plan No. X907. This is the total geographic footprint of what is now known as Nii Boi Town, New Fadama, the Abeka Market area, and neighbouring spots like Israel. The stated purposes: National Olympic Sports Complex, schools, hospitals, State Housing Company (SHC) developments. Of the 1,100 acres, SHC stepped in to formally lay out and develop approximately 310 acres for housing. The remaining ~790 acres were never applied to the stated purposes, leaving them legally subject to constitutional reversion. The Musuli (Islamic/Zongo enclave), the Israel Football Field, and community schools grew organically on the undeveloped remainder under Abeka customary oversight. E.I. 61 crossed the 50-year mark in 2025, activating the Article 20 constitutional reversion right.

Ghana Local Government Bulletin No. 80 (22 November 1974), Page 41, is an official government gazette page listing chieftaincy changes across the Ga Traditional Areas. The page records enstoolments from the Abola, Osu, Asere, and Tema Divisions.

Among the chiefs listed: Winchester Tete Boye (Nii Boi I, Abeka Mantse) is recorded as Sub-Divisional Chief of the Abeka-Asere Division. His installation entry is dated 2 May 1968 — the date of his formal traditional installation as Abeka Mantse.

This bulletin is the Government of Ghana's own official recognition of Nii Boi I as a duly installed chief of the Abeka-Asere area. It was authenticated by PRAAD (EG.6/2/1175, Ref. Certificate #0000427) in 2022, confirming it as a genuine state record.

A chieftaincy petition (Petition Suit No. 6A) was filed on 27 July 1976 concerning the authority structure of the Abeka stool. The petition names George Boye (Nuumo Apiakai) — the Senior Linguist of the Asere Mantse, land overseer, and father of Nii Boi I — as well as Nii Amu I (the same man who would later style himself "Abeka Djasetsε" in the 1984 Chieftaincy Tribunal proceedings).

The petition was filed eight years after Nii Boi I (Winchester Tete Boye) was formally installed as Abeka Mantse on 2 May 1968 and two years after his authority was confirmed in the Ghana Local Government Gazette Bulletin (22 November 1974). Its filing at this moment — when Nii Boi I's stool authority was already on the official government record — indicates the challenge was attempting to contest an already-recognised chieftaincy.

This is the earliest known formal legal challenge in which Nii Amu I appears as a party in relation to Abeka stool authority. The same pattern continued: Nii Amu I later contested Nii Boi II's enstoolment before the Chieftaincy Tribunal in 1984 (Suit No. GAR/P/4/84), where the Tribunal dismissed his claim. In 1985, Ghana Police records document Nii Amu Dodoo again asserting the Dzaasetse title at a kpoikpoi dispute meeting — and again being overruled. His son Ansah Dodoo renewed the family's claim in 2002, which was permanently stopped by the High Court's perpetual injunction (Suit No. Misc. 1675/2002).

The cover page of Petition Suit No. 6A is held in the Nii Boi Royal Family records.

The Court of Appeal (Full Bench Division), sitting with five justices, delivers its judgment in Civil Review No. 60/70 — the appeal of the Robertson consolidated suits. Coram: Azu Crabbe C.J., Jiagge J.A., Archer J.A., Kingsley-Nyinah J.A., Abban J. W.T. Boye (Winchester Tettey Boye / Nii Boi I) is named as Co-Defendant in Suit L.232/61. George Boye is confirmed as "Senior Linguist" of the Asere Mantse in the court record. The Full Bench makes two landmark rulings: (1) "It would be patently wrong to include Abeka Village in the area edged green" — the Nikoi Olai/Robertson claim does NOT extend to Abeka; (2) "Neither Abeka nor its surrounding lands were found to be in possession of the Nikoi Olai family." The court varies the Ordinary Bench judgment "subject to the variation that it excludes from its operation the village of Abeka and the surrounding lands." All five justices concur. This is the final appellate determination that the Robertson/Nikoi Olai claim to Abeka fails at every level — High Court (1966), Ordinary Bench, and Full Bench Court of Appeal (1975).

Civil Appeal No. 25/80: Ashaley Okoe (acting head of the Nikoi Olai Stool Family of Asere) brought a High Court trespass action against Torebe Homoranio III and Nii Boi I — sued as "Winchester Tete Boi of Abeka, Accra, Abeka Mantse." The High Court found trespass. Nii Boi I appealed. The Court of Appeal (Jiagge J.A. presiding, Mhusei J.A., Wiredu J.A.) delivered judgment on 15 June 1981. The court rejected the Nikoi Olai family's res judicata plea, holding that the Mukose land boundaries are "singularly very vague" — their Northern, Southern, and Western extents cannot be determined. Crucially, the court quoted Azu Crabbe C.J. (from the 1975 Full Bench Robertson review): "It is the vagueness about the extent of the land which has encouraged litigants, opposed to the Asere Stool, to harass people who buy land in the area for building purposes." The court confirmed that the plans used in the Adams case (Exh.I) and the current case (Exh.A) are "in no way identical" — meaning the Privy Council's 903.15-acre green-area finding cannot be used as res judicata to establish trespass at Abeka. Published in the Ghana Law Reports as [1987-88] 1 GLR 434.

On 9 September 1983, Nii Boi II was nominated, appointed and enstooled as the new Abeka Mantse following the death of Nii Boi I, receiving the stool name Nii Boi II and succeeding the late Nii Boi Apajafo I.

The enstoolment was conducted with the full consent and concurrence of the Asere Djasetsε, the Kingmakers, and the elders of the entire Abeka people. A formal written report was sent on 12 October 1983 by the Abeka Stool Father and Ag. Djasetsε (Nii Kwei Boye) to Nii Nikoi Olai Amontia IV, Asere Manche, as required by Ga customary protocol.

The report was signed by: — Nii Kwei Boye (Abeka Stool Father & Ag. Djasetsε) — Nii Oko Armatri (Asere Stool Secretary) — Robert Lartefio Lartey (Elder of Anusa Asere) — Nii Ayaan Aryeetey (Head of Agbon)

His enstoolment was subsequently gazetted and his name entered in the National Register of Chiefs, Greater Accra Region — a fact that proved decisive in the 1984 Chieftaincy Tribunal proceedings.

In Suit No. GAR/P/4/84, Nii Amu I — styling himself "Abeka Djasetsε" — and others from the Dodoo family petitioned the Chieftaincy Tribunal of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, sitting at Guggisberg Memorial Hall, Dodowa. Their central claim: that as Dzaasetse, Nii Amu I held the constitutional authority to enstool and destool the Abeka Mantse, and that the enstoolment of Nii Boi II was therefore invalid without his approval.

The Tribunal — chaired by Nene Martey Chartey Awah III, with members Nii Kojo Ababio V and Nene Afutu Martey II — dismissed the application on 27 November 1984.

Key finding: the 7th Respondent produced a Certified True Copy of an extract from the National Register of Chiefs, Greater Accra Region, confirming that Nii Boi II had been properly installed as Abeka Mantse and his name duly registered since 15 February 1984. Under Sec. 50(8) of the Chieftaincy Act, Act 370, the contents of the National Register are prima facie evidence. The Tribunal found the application to be misconceived and belated, and dismissed it accordingly. Nii Amu I and the Dodoo family had no documentary evidence to contradict the registration.

This ruling established that the Dodoo family had no constitutional authority over the Abeka stool, Dzaasetse office, or the enstoolment/destoolment of any Abeka chief. Nii Amu Dodoo is the father of Ansah Dodoo. The same family renewed their challenge in 2002 and were again rejected by the High Court.

A Ghana Police report from Tesano Division, dated 22 August 1985 (Ref. TED/CID.43/VOL.1/49), documents a meeting convened at Divisional Headquarters, Nima on 21 August 1985 to resolve a dispute over the sprinkling of kpoikpoi (homowo food) at Abeka on 24 August 1985.

Two factions were present:

Accredited side (Nii Boi II): Nii Boi II (Abeka Mantse), Quaye Boye (Sentse), E.A. Tagoe (Elder), R.A. Baddoo (Elder), Amartey Herbert (Elder), Kofi Okanta (Linguist).

Opposing side: Nii Amu Dodoo (styling himself "Dzaasetse"), Naa Aryeley (Queenmother), Henry Boye (Frn) Ag. Mantse, Asafoatse Brenya, M. Quartey (Ga Akwashoshon Mantse), Alex Armah (Stool Secretary).

The Deputy Superintendent caused the 1984 Chieftaincy Tribunal proceedings to be read and explained. After a lengthy discussion, it became abundantly clear that Nii Boi II is the recognised chief of Abeka who should continue to exercise the functions of a chief at Abeka. The opposing Stool Secretary admitted their side had no documentary evidence. C/Supt. Osamanu advised the opposing side to appeal the 1984 Tribunal ruling if dissatisfied, and to not interfere with the activities of Nii Boi II as Abeka Mantse.

Signed by Deputy Superintendent A.O. Ntiri, Ghana Police, copied to The Regional Commissioner, Nii Boi II (Abeka Mantse), and Henry Boye (Frn) Abeka.

A landmark legal victory confirming a pattern of Dodoo family claims that had been consistently rejected by Ghana's courts since 1984.

In 1984, the Dodoo family's patriarch Nii Amu I had petitioned the Chieftaincy Tribunal of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, claiming that as Dzaasetse he had the authority to enstool and destool the Abeka Mantse. That claim was dismissed by the Tribunal (Suit No. GAR/P/4/84). In 1985, Ghana Police records document Nii Amu Dodoo again asserting the Dzaasetse title on the opposing side — and again being overruled when Tribunal proceedings confirming Nii Boi II were read aloud at the meeting.

In 2002, Nii Amu Dodoo's son — Ansah Dodoo — renewed the family's claim, now seeking to be installed as Abeka Dzaasetse. The High Court of Ghana, presided over by Her Lordship Mrs. Felicity Amoah, issued a perpetual injunction preventing the Asere Traditional Council from installing Ansah Dodoo as Abeka Dzaase without the authority of the Nii Boi Royal Family.

This case established clear and final precedent: the Dodoo family has no constitutional authority over the Dzaasetse office of Abeka or any enstoolment within the Abeka chieftaincy. The perpetual injunction is cited in every subsequent dispute. Nii Amu Dodoo is the father of Ansah Dodoo — their claim has been rejected three times across four decades: 1984 (Tribunal), 1985 (Police proceedings), and 2002 (High Court perpetual injunction).

During intense development pressure along the N1 highway corridor, the Nii Boi Royal Family was involved in a significant land dispute with a real estate developer over stool land within the Abeka Traditional Area. The trial court ruled against the family; the family exercised their right of appeal at the Court of Appeal. Developer name, case number, and appeal outcome are being compiled from Ghana National Archives and the Judicial Service.

Nii Boi III passed away and was succeeded by Nii Boi IV. His death opened the interregnum period that led to the enstoolment of Nii Boi IV on 4 August 2013. Exact date of passing is being confirmed from Nii Boi Royal Family records.

On August 4, 2013, two enstoolments were conducted simultaneously. Nii Boi IV was enstooled as Abeka Mantse and Jonathan Yartey Boye — receiving the stool name Nii Apiakai I — was enstooled as Dzaasetse of the Abeka Stool. Both ceremonies were conducted through the proper Ga customary process involving the Abeka kingmakers and the Asere Traditional authorities as the paramount divisional authority. Nii Apiakai I's enstoolment is the validly recognised appointment to the Dzaasetse stool of Abeka.

Traditional installations purported to have taken place at Abeka on this date were conducted without the knowledge, consent, or participation of the Stool Father and principal elders of the Nii Boi Royal Family. The Royal Family maintained these installations had no customary validity and formally rejected them.

The Nii Boi Royal Family unanimously resolved to suspend Nii Boi IV indefinitely, citing the customary irregularities of the November 2022 installations. Nii Aban Boi I was appointed as regent. The matter was referred to the Judicial Committee of the Ga Traditional Council. Nii Aban Boi I passed away in 2025; the matter remains pending before the Council.

A disputed claim to the Dzaasetse title arose from Nii Dodoo Ansah III of the Amu Dodoo / Dodoo Ansah family. The Nii Boi Royal Family does not recognise this claim. Under Ga customary law, Abeka enstoolments are conducted by the Abeka kingmakers and involve the Asere Traditional authorities. The Amu Dodoo / Dodoo Ansah family are not among the Abeka kingmakers and lack customary authority to confer or determine the Dzaasetse title. Any purported enstoolment outside this recognised process is invalid and unrecognised.

The Lands Commission issued a regularization notice in May 2023 regarding Nii Boiman (Lapaz), disputed between the Nii Boi Royal Family and the Asere Kotopong Stool (Nii Amarkai III). Affected sub-areas: Bambolino (formerly Abeka), Ofanko, Asofa, Awoshie, Kwashiebu, Sowutuom, and Lomnava — significant peri-urban land parcels with high development value.

Madam Yemo Gladys Ayele Adams (80), a relative of Nii Boi I (the first Abeka Mantse), was formally installed as head of the Nii Boi We at a ceremony at Abeka Mantse Palace. Covered by Accra News Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 8. Present: Alex Nii Boye (Spokesman), Nii Amon Boye, Amartei Amartaifio alias Ayigbe Mantse (the solicitor who filed the 2002 perpetual injunction on behalf of the family), George Aban Boye (stool father), Francis Yartey Boye (Assemblyman, AMA chaplain). Representatives from Agbon and Amartse We of Asere also attended — providing cross-family recognition. Madam Adams comes from Asere and is a relative of Nii Boi I, confirming the ancestral link between the Asere and Abeka sides.