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The elephants in the room: some Ghanaian chiefs are disgracing chieftaincy

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  • Konko 7 years ago

    The way so many stupid people parade themselves as Chiefs in Ghana and behave as they please should be fiercely challenged and abolished. I call on the majority to rise up and chase these crooks out of our lifes.

  • ChrisC 7 years ago

    Leave Chiefs alone. With the exception of the Asantehene who cannot be politically manipulated, politicians have made the vast majority of Chiefs what they are today, gaping sycophants who blow with the wind. If you have any ...
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  • Ghanaian 7 years ago

    THE ASHANTIHENE SHOULD NOT BE SPARRED. HE IS AN NDC PROPER.

  • Kwame Boakye, Accra. 7 years ago

    This is the kind of good articles I want to read on Ghanaweb not the one-sided nonsense Francis Kwarteng, Borkor, Ahoofe, and others have been writing. The chieftaincy corrupt is real and it is impeding progress in the count ...
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  • zico 7 years ago

    right on, Kwame. this is the article every Ghanaian should read.

  • Keli Mensah 7 years ago

    Point on.

  • Ben 7 years ago

    Chiefs are supposed to be above reproach but because they dabbled in cheap politics, they are now laughing stock.

  • Ekow Samuel. 7 years ago

    The chieftancy of the chiefs and the kings are the owner of the Lands whom always are taking care at lease on it os if it comes the the gorvment is going to have them in their area for gorvering that is very as Nna Addo Dankw ...
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  • THE VOICE 7 years ago

    WORTHLESS.MAHAMA IS A THIEF,JUDICIALS ARE CRIMINALS ONLY BRIBE TAKING IS THEIR NORM LEGISLATORS CAN EVEN TURN LAPTOP ON TEEEEAKAI CORRUPTION CORRUPTION CORRUPTION MAHAMA RELIED ON PROPAGANDA AND DISGRACED HIMSELF.HE GOES DOWN ...
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  • j boateng 7 years ago

    I dare to say you have hit the nail right on the head.Most of these chiefs are a disgrace to their people. You could call some of them armed robbers who must be denigrated by the public..
    One cannot count on any decent chief ...
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  • owuo 7 years ago

    If we do not abolish the so called chieftaincy , we will never develope . Every corner there is chief . This is the one of most problems we are facing in ghana. They are the owners . And most of them did no nothing. So i ...
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  • CITIZEN 7 years ago

    Chieftancy in Ghana is a necessary evil. ( santrofi anomaa -Wofa no, woafa musuo. Wogyae no,woagyae sradeye) I strongly suggest ,the Gov't establish an Institute of Chieftancy.It will help the chiefs ,the traditional areas an ...
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