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The chieftaincy institution needs reform - Nana Akufo-Addo

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  • cha 7 years ago

    Good leadership

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    A female reporter, interviewing a Winneba Ghanaian chief during the dear hunting festival, asked the significance of the
    Varied number of feathers in Winneba chief headdresses.


    "Feathers show number of sexual partner ...
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  • Ghanabi 7 years ago

    Most of our chiefs now are very capable, highly educated, resourceful, and wise. Their talents and abilities are needed in governance. The constitution, as it currently exists, bar them from participating in active party poli ...
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  • AKUFO, ALL DIE BE DIE UGLY DWARF. 7 years ago

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  • Rayo 7 years ago

    Why do you like too much meddling in chieftaincy affairs? I think you were voted base on your promises., So if you are about to divert the those problems and waste your time for chieftaincy affairs then what will be th ...
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  • NANA BOSORE 7 years ago

    CHANGE HAS COME SO NOW ANY CHIEF WHO OPENLY ENDORSE ANY POLITICAL PARTY SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND PROSECUTED BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY AGAINST CHIEFTAINCY LAW BUT IT WILL ALSO STOP THEM FROM GETTING FREE CARS FROM SOME CORRUPT GOVERNM ...
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  • apuuuu 7 years ago

    Mahama gives free car to the Chiefs why that car could have fix their roads or create jobs for youths in their aera Nana is showing a real leadership not the one show by dead goat John Ford Mahama apuuuu

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    It's a lie. 1 car each for the regional House of chiefs to facilitate their work and not a car for each chief. Kuffour spent millions to buy medals to decorate himself and others. Soon the current SUV's wd be abandoned for in ...
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  • Unite Africa 7 years ago

    If you want to succeed then stay out of chieftaincy issues because they are corrupts and greedy. They are just in to promote their own interest leaving the masses in poverty and if you complain they will become angry and work ...
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  • Rashid 7 years ago

    That is not what Ghanaians voted you for. Focus on your deceitful promises and make sure it comes to light effectively. Ghana is watching you and no diversionary tactics Nana president.

  • Wiseman 7 years ago

    Oh my brother why not keep cool and come again after one year of His presidency.We were all suffering from economic hardship under JM and there was no sign he was going to turn things around because he was a dead goat andwith ...
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  • Kb 7 years ago

    Ei so suddenly someone is electected president and all those that opposed him must apologise and he should forgive them.....what a backward country we live in.

  • Pb4 7 years ago

    Is a step in the right direction Nana. Keep it up

  • mass 7 years ago

    Nana the talking is too much ooo.

  • Kofi Thompson 7 years ago

    India's nationaliust leaders who freed their country from British colonial rule (and its post-independence leaders) understood clearly that inherited privilege is the greatest enemy of meritocracy - and eventually got rid of ...
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  • Deep Thought 7 years ago

    Amanmmuo firi Ahenfie! .The missionaries came and gave us something call democracy( not bad though ) but the inception was to have advantage of colonising people,psychologically suppress them and have control of them whic ...
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  • Tt-efo, UK 7 years ago

    I sincerely trust this man to get Ghana working again so as turn around the economic hardship the good people of Ghana are facing. Nana I salute u my hero, my president n my father. Holalaaaaaaaaa, may His name be praised!

  • Newsite Bansah 7 years ago

    Nana was elected to fix the real problems of Ghana, and not dabble in chieftaincy. People like Nana and Kuffour who have links to royal families have been promoting the institution in Ghana. In fact, J. B. Danquah campaigned ...
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  • George 7 years ago

    On point!

  • Animal kingdom 7 years ago

    Reform indeed, many Chiefs are going to be destooled during Nana Addo's reign and his favourites install all in the name of reform.

  • wise 7 years ago

    This is the beginning of the fall of this greedy, vicious old man, after.his four years ,he will, be chief of the most murderous "tribe in Ghana, the akyems.

  • OBOURBA 7 years ago

    Whilst building dams lets also arm ourselves of fighting mosquitos so we do not defeat these noble ideals of development by spreading malaria.

  • Georgee 7 years ago

    Nana most of the Chiefs are corrupt to the marrow and will not be helpful in any government.

  • Dzolali 7 years ago

    Chieftainship needs no reform. It is obsolete, redundant, wasteful. A third world country with thousands of self-appointed and corrupt idlers called chiefs. Some of the say they are "Kings. Sad and ridiculous. It must be abol ...
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  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 7 years ago

    OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE OVERHAULED FIRST AND FOREMOST. CRIME IS TOO RAMPANT IN GHANA THESE DAYS. WE NEED A VERY EFFECTIVE IN OUR COUNTRY. NANA, WE ARE ALL LOOKING UP TO YOU, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU ! W ...
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