Nii Amugi II

Nii Amugi II is the official title of Simon Nii Yarboi Yartey (8 June 1940 – 10 December 2004[1]), who was the Ga Mantse in Ga for 39 years.

[2] Amugi was the sixth child of his father Samuel Nii Ofoli Yartey and the second of mother, Elizabeth Naa Afi Torgbor of Amugi We and Sakumo Tsoshishi respectively.

[2] As a student in 1946, he attended Methodist primary school at Kojokrom in the Western Region of Ghana, continuing at Nsawam ECM.

Nii Amugi II died after a long struggle with ill health.

His funeral was attended by former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, as well as Professor John Atta-Mills, the NDC Presidential candidate for the 2008 general elections, Mr. Edward Doe Adjaho, Deputy Minority leader and Dr. Mary Grant.

A commemorative cloth of Nii Amugi II in the British Museum, London, UK.