ABOUT NSUAPEMSO.

Founder:

The village was founded by one Mr. Wood and Mr. Manti Alerti and Brothers, who traveled far from Adukrom in the Eastern region of Ghana to find a new settlement within the Akyim areas around 1926.

The 4 Brothers officially bought the present Nsuapemso land from the then Osino chief and wife but settled at an area of the land where it was believed to have a lot of covered mud pits due to mining in the area during that era. Because of the nature of the land there, they named the place “Ti toom,” meaning “fall inside.” This was because they normally fall in unprotected covered pits around the area, especially when it rains.

A few years later, the Manti Alerti family decided to move from Ti Toom to a better side of their land, which was close to the then Begoro-Nsutama road, which linked Accra to Kumasi around a river they named Nsuapem.

Finally, they started building their mud houses around the Nsuapem river and then changed their town name from TI TOOM to NSUAPEMSO; meaning (on top of the Nsuapem river)

Mr. Wood, who was the oldest among the delegates who came to the area, had a lot of land and his family members outside the region, so he used to visit his lands and family outside the then TI TOOM area frequently.

When Ever Mr. Wood was out of TI TOOM, he dedicated Mr. Manti Alerti to watch back since he was next to his brothers.

Mr. Wood did not return from one of his usual trips, and his family confirmed his passing around 1927.

Mr. Manti Alerti, who then became the 1st chief after they moved from Ti Toom to the Nsuapem river area, ruled the village for a while until he also died and his first son, Kwame Alerti, took over the throne.

Nana Kwame Alerti and siblings brought C.A.C Prayer camp to Nsuapemso , Built the first school for Nsuapemso as he also acted as the Head Teacher for the community school around the 1940’s . He later discovered that some Krobo tribes who used to settle behind the Nsuapem River also had serious crises during rainy seasons, so he asked them to move close to where he and his people are to save them from the consistent flood issues they faced back then.

A few months after the few Krobos came to settle in Nsuapemso, where Alerti and family gave them their Cocoa Farms and Lands to start and continue farming together as one family until today.

Presently, the Krobos and the Akwapem people in Nsuapemso have intermarried and have become one family.

Presently, the grandson of Kwame Alerti, Nana Kwabena Alerti, is the present chief of Nsuapemso.

The present Queen mother of Nsuapemso, Nana Akosua Kyerewaah I is also the granddaughter of the late Nana Kwame Alerti.

Population:

Presently the village has about 1400 people. Most of the people in Nsuapemso are Akwapims followed by Krobos and then other tribes who have recently migrated into the village due to mining business opportunity and the peaceful nature of the village.

The people of Nsuapemso are mostly Famers. they mostly use to be Cocoa farmers more in the area before the immerse of Mining.

Presently the Community is engaging with the government to change Galamsey *( illegal mining ) to Cooperative Mining system in the town.