The Gbese Mantse, Nii Ayi Bonte II, has further stoked the embers of controversy surrounding the contentious issue of who is the rightful claimant to the Ga stool by emphatically stating that the widely- acclaimed Ga Mantse and recognised chairman of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, King Tackie Tawiah III was only Chairman of a funeral committee and therefore a usurper.