Naa Torshie has truly thrown the Ga community under the bus. Her recent remarks “nti se yɛn nkrafoo” make it difficult to believe she still carries Ga-Dangme in her heart. Kennedy Agyapong may admit that politicians lie, but Naa Torshie has perfected the art for political gain. And it’s almost artistic, how she performs the stretching, bending, twisting, and Olympic-level political gymnastics that always land her gracefully on whichever side promises a running-mate slot.
How does a Ga woman stand on a political platform and claim that Ashantis are not tribalistic but her own people, the Gas, are? And for what? to win applause in the Ashanti Region and position herself as Kennedy Agyapong’s running mate?Standing on Ashanti soil and branding her own people as tribalistic is not just reckless, it’s textbook tribal bigotry. A Ga woman campaigning by portraying Gas as the villains in her political fairy tale and folklore?, you can’t make this stuff up. Politics can really twist people.
And let’s be honest: Just as Ashantis aren’t inherently tribalistic, Gas aren’t either. Every ethnic group has diversity and complexity in behaviour. But to smear one’s own community for political convenience is simply wrong and painfully unfair.
Ironically, Naa Torshie knows better. She knows that the spiritual and cultural ethic of the Ga people is embodied in “Abladei Aba Kuma Wo”, the ancestral invocation of peace, welcome, and harmonious coexistence extended to kings, queens, nobles, strangers, angels, and ancestors, patriarch and matriarch alike. The Ga are known as one of the most welcoming and accommodating peoples on the continent. Hospitality isn’t a mere gesture in Ga-Dangme culture, it is a defining principle woven into daily life.
Even the sacred “soul food” offered to Ga deities: Nai, Gborbu, Korle, and Sakumo is rooted in generosity and communal spirit, performed with the same ethos of Abladei Aba Kuma Wo. It is an expression of openness, calm, and unity as connected to Ga hospitality and identity.
Hospitality is part of Ga survival and history. Historically, Ga communities lived along the coast a crossroads where traders arrived, strangers docked on the sea side, migrants entered and settled in the city, and cultures mingled with diverse groups lived side by side.
To survive and thrive in such a cosmopolitan space demanded adaptability, openness, tolerance, and quick integration of outsiders. Abladei itself is a sacred period of accepting strangers in peace. Peace is not just valued, it is central to Ga identity.
Ghana’s ethnic groups are complex, layered, and full of beautiful contradictions, we all know that. But in Naa Torshie’s world, nuance is a liability and convenient storytelling is a campaign strategy. For what? For votes. For visibility. For the dream of being crowned Kennedy Agyapong’s running mate.
So here we are: watching a seasoned politician voluntarily detach herself from her own roots in exchange for political oxygen. If loyalty were a commodity, hers would be on clearance sale.
Boɛɛboii… see what politics can turn people into unrecognizable versions of themselves.
Osɔfo Nii Naate Atswele Agbo Nartey
