The name of this town came known when the Member of Parliament for Abirem constituency, John Osei Frimpong asked the Minister for Energy, whether the ministry has plans to provide off-grid electricity to communities in the constituency in the Eastern Region.

Many Ghanaians had not heard of the villages until they were mentioned in Parliament.

A grandson of one of the early settlers, Atta explaining the rationale behind the name said one of his grandmothers, Maame Akosua Ani who died in 2011, explained to him why their great-grandfathers chose the name for the villages.

He said the three brothers moved from ‘Mia w’ani’ – ‘Try harder’ to settle in the area courtesy of the Pankese chief who allowed them to settle and farm in the area.

The three brothers, namely – Kofi Sampson, Kwadwo Gyan, and Kofi Sane lived together but when Kwadwo Gyan married, he sacked his two brothers from his community because he was being controlled by his wife.

The wife later divorced and sacked Kwadwo Gyan from the house and took over all his properties.

Gyan turned to his two brothers whom he had earlier sacked from his house for help, and they explained to him how foolish he had behaved by choosing to live with a woman [v@gina] instead of sticking to his brothers and now that the “wise v@gina” had maltreated him, he was turning to them.

They, therefore, coined the phrase ‘ɛtwɛ nim nyansa’.

The chief of the area, Nana Dr. Boakye Darkwa III, said they are proud of the names since there is a rationale behind the name.

He said the names should rather attract well-wishers to come to the aid of the communities to help them develop.