Tetteh Quarshie is from Osu, not Mampong Akuapem GaDangme Council to Akufo-Addo [Video]

The GaDangme Council has dismissed President Nana Akufo-Addo’s statement that Tetteh Quarshie hails from Mampong in the Eastern Region.

According to the Council, historical records confirm that Tetteh Quarshie’s birthplace is Osu in the Greater Accra Region.

Akufo-Addo in his address at the 67th Independence Day celebration in Koforidua on March 6, hailed Tetteh Quarshie as an indigene of Mampong Akuapem and visionary behind the introduction of cocoa to Ghana.

“Indeed, Tetteh Quarshie, an indigene of Mampong Akuapem, here in the Eastern Region, brought back, in the late 19th century, the cocoa pod from Fernando Po, now Bioko, in Equatorial Guinea, an act which led him and others to establish our nation’s first commercial cocoa farms here in the Eastern Region,” he said.

However, a statement signed by the President of the Council, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has said there are discrepancies between Akufo-Addo’s statement and historical facts, addding that it …