Accra, June 20, GNA - The Nai-Wulomo, Numo Tete III on Tuesday called for an end to the "media war" triggered by the announcement of the installation of a new Ga Mantse.

This, he said, was to avert more animosity and tension among the Ga people.

In a statement issued in Accra, Nai-Wulomo, who is the highest fetish priest of the Ga Traditional Council, noted that the announced installation of the new Ga Mantse had generated some issues "which need not be unnecessarily over-fanned to generate into serious inter-house conflict within Ga Royal Houses".

He said he had had "a serious meeting" with the four royal houses and "at the appropriate time, a final word would come from me". Nii Teiko Tsuru We, one of the royal houses last week announced the installation of a new King for the Gas.

Dr Jo Blankson, 63, a member of the National Development Planning Commission, was installed the new Ga Mantse under the stool name King Tackie Tawiah III.

It said it received the mantle to select an overlord of the Ga State 41 years ago from the family of the late Nii Amugi Seose II. However, the Ga Paramount Stool Dzase responsible for the installation of an overlord of the Ga State condemned the purported installation saying the action amounted to gross disrespect to Ga customs and traditions.

"By Ga customs, traditions and by the laws of our peaceful land it is a taboo for a handful of (people) within one gate of one particular royal ruling house to hold to ransom and show gross disrespect to a well established system or procedure for their personal selfish interest," the Dzase said at a press conference in Accra last Friday.