Ipi Kwa Bentum IV || Personality Profile



IPI KWA BENTUM IV

Senya Breakup State Commander.

Ipi Kwa Bentum IV is known in private life as Ishmael Yabeni Barnes. He hails from the Prɛ-tɔ Clan of Senya Beraku, the clan responsible for the nomination and installation of the State Commander, known as Ipi. 

Ipi Kwa Bentum IV was born to the late Nenyi Yaw Barnes and Naase Nancy Anderson, at Senya Beraku. However, he had his primary, middle and secondary schools education at Simpa (Winneba) - ie, Methodist Primary, Middle Boys and Winneba Secondary, respectively. 

After his secondary education in 1983, where he was popularly known by the students as Pope Judas, he travelled to Lagos, Nigeria, where he attended the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos State. 

Covering a period of seven years in the nation of Nigeria, he engaged in several businesses and eventually landed as an Interior Decorator. Hard work and determination were the only words in the disctionary of his heart. 

With the determination to explore and exploit all avenues of life, Ipi Kwa Bentum IV ventured through the Saharah Desert to Tripoli, Libya, where he spent another two years occupying himself with jobs such as masonry, and the opportunities that came his way. 

In 1990, he returned to Ghana and joined the Ghana Armed Forces. However, six years later he voluntarily resigned and later made his way to South Korea. He returned in 1998 and spent the bulk of his time to trade in Korean cars. This trading caused him to make several journeys in and out of the country.

Then in 2001 he again moved into the service of the nation by joining the National Security, where he served as a communication officer. 

Following the death of his predecessor, Ipi Kow Nkansenyi Arkaah I (former vice president to president JJ Rawlings), Ipi Kwa Bentum IV was nominated and installed by his clan elders to occupy the throne as the commander (Ipi) of the Senya Beraku state in 2011. 

PRƐTƆ INSIGNIAS

Origin of Clan (River Pra)

Totem - Parrot 

Puberty Rite - Akoo (Parrot)

Some of the Clan Names (and appellations) for children born into it:

Pre 

Yaw - Miafo 

Nkansenyi - Katamanto

Akyeampong

Otu - Otufaa 

Nkwanta

Arkaa

Egyari - Okuntwi 

Otabir - Otatim 

Baa - Oteku

Ahen (Arhin) - Okuntu

Yabeni - Okyakyen abɛ

Obirigya - Obiritakyi 

NB: This information shall be updated from time to time. Suggestions and corrections needed but would only be effected after proper verification.


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