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Chieftaincy institution has outlived its usefulness – Kwesi Pratt

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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Why do we spend time to talk about this useless stuff when GYEEDA, SADA, SAGU, ISOFOTON, ZOOMLION, WOYOME, AGAMBIRE are engulfing the country.

    Chieftaincy is not our problem, democracy is. We are somehow cursed with useles ...
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  • BAD MOUTH 10 years ago

    Thank God, for the first time in Ghana, an idiot has been able to identify his fellow kingpins. Thank Akwesi/Kwesi/whatever, please show us how to proceed further for it takes only a fool to show the ways of a/the fool!

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  • Ghana-Man. 10 years ago

    Before the 1992 constitution there was our culture. We can't take our intestines out and replace them with rubbish. Any so-called human right that goes against our culture can't be tolerated. Human right is the least of the t ...
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  • Pelpou Mamori. 10 years ago

    Kwesi, do not show your picture any more in your pages. You have never been a handsome guy and you are becoming more ugly every day with your rotten teeth. Go and paste.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    By virtue of him coming from the royal family, any "fool" can be chief whiles no person outside the royal family can rule. Is this sensible in this modern world?
    I totally support kwesi on this

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 10 years ago

    THY SHOULD RUN FOR GOVT.

  • Ghana-Man. 10 years ago

    We respect our Kings/Chiefs more than these greedy bastard politicians.

  • Pelpou Mamori. 10 years ago

    Do you think the king makers are fools to impose a fool on the people of a whole clan. You are a goat?
    You do not only have to come from royal blood;you must have the qualities required to lead the people. In these modern d ...
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  • gretchy 10 years ago

    Geeze get rid of those useless bloody Chiefstaincy institution.this is the 21st century not the eat and kill days of bygone years.They're all getting fat and the rest of the citizens are starving

  • CHARLES KOFI,AFRICA 10 years ago

    CHIEFS IN GHANA ARE THE MOST CORRUPT PEOPLE YOU CAN EVER THINK OF.THEY SELL ONE PIECE OF LAND TO 10 PEOPLE CAUSING LAND DISPUTES/DEATHS ALL OVER GHANA AND NOW THEY ARE INTO GALAMSEY. GOVT.SHOULD CLAMP DOWN ON THEM AND STOP AR ...
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  • Pelpou Mamori. 10 years ago

    Just name one corrupt chief and support your claims. Then take him to court and he will be duelly dealt with. If you can not then shut your stinky black skin hole.

  • gh ba 10 years ago

    i bet your father is or was corrupt. Only an idiot like u from a so called royal family will reason like this. What fucking role do chiefs play in this country apart from sell lands belonging to the people?

  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    KWESI, CHIEFS ARE MORE IMPORTANT TO AN AVERAGE GHANAIAN THAN THE GREEDY,CLUELESS POLITICIANS. KOFI GHANA UNDERSTANDS WHAT A CHIEF SAYS TO HIM THAN WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THE MUMBO-JUMBO CONSTITUTION.

  • KWAME 10 years ago

    Kwesi This time I agree with you wholeheartedly. Unequivocally, when a nation becomes a republic, the power of monarchy is dissolved. In 1961 the CPP government declared Ghana a REPUBLIC state, why wasn't the MONARCHY abolis ...
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  • Nana Opeimu Ababio I 10 years ago

    Mr. Kwesi Pratt sees himself as God in Ghananian culture because he is a journalist with his own newspaper who can get on any media and say anything on his mind. Yes, Chieftaincy is becoming an obsolete in our culture not bec ...
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  • Pelpou Mamori. 10 years ago

    He who pays the piper calls the tune.Most chiefs cannot exist without the government support. The corrupt ones side with corrupt politicians and some chiefs are just not self makers so they kneel down infront of cash. To be i ...
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  • TKD 10 years ago

    ...to rule them out.
    Kwesi, there are several good sides of the Ghanaian chief and all depend of the chief in question and the subject matter at stake.
    Certainly there are bad elements in any human endeavor and settlements.

  • Stella 10 years ago

    The so called chieftaincy is a dead institution!!!. They have no role in this dispensation. period! Anything otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. Even Satan may have some usefulness does not mean chieftaincy cannot have s ...
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  • Nicholas Kyeretwie-Chicago,USA 10 years ago

    And we still maintain a ministry for this institution which has outlived its usefulness.A waste of time and money.God save Ghana.

  • TKD 10 years ago

    ...in a rural setting where you would appreciate the mediation role of the chief in the community. Kwesi's stand seems to be focused at a portion or aspect of chieftaincy perhaps with a personality in mind and an issue in min ...
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  • Artillery 10 years ago

    Show me any institution that has no 'discrimination'. We should not be condemn as institution that (despite its checkered history)has held communities together foe centuries. At the top level, national politics discriminate ...
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  • Chiga 10 years ago

    Kwesi is very right. Politicians are giving too much attention to chiefs for political reasons. We put some corrupt illiterate guys and keep calling them kings. Ghana has no kingdom the earlier we deal with it the better

  • OTCHERE DARKO 10 years ago

    While agreeing with Kwesi Pratt, my question is how do we do away with this so-called tradition that has "outlived its usefulness"?

    We cannot do away with chieftaincy, therefore we must 'modernise' and use it.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    I whole-heartedly disagree with Mr. Pratt about chieftaincy "outliving its usefulness".
    On the other hand, I whole-heartedly agree with you that we must do everything possible to "modernise" it and use it.
    In an article I'm ...
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  • Abongo 10 years ago

    Today, Pratt you made sense to me

  • KOFI NSIA 10 years ago

    Pratt, has outlived his usefulness as a social commentator.Which is older.The constitution or chieftaincy? the constitution written in a language that 50 percent of Ghanaians do not understand should be amended ASAP.

  • KWAME A. 10 years ago

    I agree with you Mr. Pratt. Tell what this people are
    contributing to the country?

  • Ideology 10 years ago

    Pratt you are right,. It is now the retirement job for the educated elites.

  • Adama d'Gharty, 10 years ago

    There were times in history during our early development of tiny group settlements that we required brave leaders to manage the affairs of our people. The group leaders who were mainly called "chiefs" led us to fight wars, se ...
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  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    During our first republic, our first president used our money to support freedom fighters in most parts of Africa. Why should he do that? Was any Chief in Ghana involved?

    Who can account for all monies our former past l ...
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  • Danny 10 years ago

    Can kwesi tell me what good thing has ever come from those we called the elite ones? the so called Educated interlectuals? apart from stealing. What Good?

  • Yaw Abiss 10 years ago

    Kwasi you are right on the money. What role can chieftaincy play in national development. I believe chieftaincy promotes tribalism by making one tribe's chief feel superior to other chiefs. Government support is inadvertently ...
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  • Odasanyi, London 10 years ago

    HAS THIS CONFUSED MAN GOT AN ISSUE WITH ANY OF OUR CHIEFS? HE SEEMS TO BRING THIS UP EVERY SO OFTEN. GIVE IT A REST AS THIS IS A LEGACY OF MONUMENTAL VALUE BY OUR ANCESTORS SO WE WILL KEEP IT?

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Democracy is the last thing ever to visit us and it is killing us rather than helping us. How many of our chiefs are in government and how many of them are among the corruption hindering our dear progress in Ghana?

    Before ...
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  • babs 10 years ago

    think twice politicians are worse. between the devil and the deep blue sea, i would prefer a crony of chiefs to the angelic politicians of africa.

  • akora oteng 10 years ago

    Eventhough the Europeans have a KING/QUEEN it makes a difference when in Ghana we have kings,chiefs,queens, all over.We can continue to surpress their importance as Nkrumah did, or do away with them, completely as the writer ...
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  • Oso 10 years ago

    I would never have dreamt you could say a wise thing as such, Kwesi, Bravo!!!! Afterall, you are not an empty barrel yet.Good grieves, this is true! I wish Dr Nkrumah had done away with chieftancy before his departure.Chiefta ...
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  • CAPII 10 years ago

    CHIEFS ARE OUR NATURAL RULERS; NOT POLITICIANS AND NEWSPAPER EDITORS. PEOPLE WITHOUT HISTORY LOOSE THEIR CUSTOMS,TRADITIONS,CULTURE AS GROUP OF PEOPLE.ANOTHER CULTURE ENSLAVE YOU WITH NAMES LIKE "PRATT." LOST & MEANINGLESS.

  • Pelpou Mamori. 10 years ago

    Kwesi is a piece of shit. He is from a family with no history, a low cost Ghanaian from a trash family.
    Chieftaincy has existed before CPP and will exist after NDC/NPP.Kwesi, go and get circumsized.

  • DR. SAM 10 years ago

    GHANAINS IS TIME 2013 WHY ACT AS YEAR 213, GROW UP! BE REAL GET AN EDUCATION! HOW CAN YOU HAVE 2 DIFFERENT KIND OF GOVERNMENTS?
    FOR YOUR INFORMATION GHANA IS A "REPUBLIC" - DO YOU KNOW THE MEANING? STUDY!

  • ASUMADU EMESEWOELI, HO, VOLTA REGION 10 years ago

    THESE CONFUSED SOCIALISTS LED BY KWAME NKRUMA HAVE NEVER REALLY ANALYSED THE RELEVANCE OF THE CHIEFTAINCY INSTITUTION TO OUR DEVELOPMENT,AND KEEP MAKING UNINFORMED AND UNSEARCGED COMMENTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THE MEDIA ...
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