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RE: House of chiefs “irrelevant” – Lepowura

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  • GHANAWATCH 8 years ago

    Chieftancy should be abolished and chiefs replaced by elected cities,towns and village mayors who will be accountable to the central government.

  • GOLD COAST 8 years ago

    We should not waste time and resources reforming this backward, corrupt,violent and useless institution - in this 21st Century.

    It has been abolished in India,Nepal and Ethiopia - and that has paved the way for modernizati ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Hmm! I see you guys are on the extreme republican side. I can empathise with everything you have said but can we speak any better of our so-called "modern" sector comprising the Lands Dept, the judiciary, the Executive? Aren ...
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  • Osofomaane 8 years ago

    Andy stop your stupidity and hypocricy and rather tell your greedy and corrupt Ewe Chiefs to abort Chieftaincy.

  • Godd 8 years ago

    Since the DJCC will also comprise the same Ghanaians prone to the same bad ways, why should any powers be transferred to them, Andy?

    Perhaps the solution may not lie in a change of structures. The solution may be in a cha ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    I have argued why those functions should be transferred to the DJCC - members shall have teh requisite localor indigenous knowledge to deal with disputes relating to the institutions in their areas. Secondly, coming from that ...
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  • Godd 8 years ago

    Ok, thanks and on another issue.

    Do you happen to know how this gazetting of chiefs come about? Did it exist during the colonial era (govt gazette is a typical colonial thing)? Was it not initially a mere record of events ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Yes, gazetting chiefs was one relic of the colonial era still with us. It is simply an announcement through an official journal or similar that a chief had been duly recognisd as such by the colonial authorities. Likewise, a ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Thanks, Andy C. Y. Kwawukume, for the recall!

    We agree!

    That institution is one of the banes of Ghana's under-development. As such, serious reform, including abolition, ought to be considered.

    Too many loyalties in O ...
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  • David 8 years ago

    You people shouldn't be silly and forget that we have our tradition that cannot just be neglected or rejected.

    Your corrupt politicians if mandated to handling Land matters will be even worst than the Chiefs.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    David, you may be a traditionalist supporter but you don't have to start insulting anybody on this issue. Within the paradigm in which they write, they have legitimate arguments. Why should we be tied down forever by traditio ...
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  • Arturo Aranchez Sanchez 8 years ago

    Why not subject the continuation of chieftaincy to a national referendum? Should it be an electable office? What would be the powers and responsibilities of such personnel in the modern state system? Should the institution be ...
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  • Johnny Depp 8 years ago

    I think is time to stop chieftains. This are keeping us back all the time. .