Mahama wants chiefs to work with assemblies

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• BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

  Nana’s sources of income did not come from his personal sweat. He is where he is as a result of the booty bequeathed to him by what his father looted from the economy and also the bribe his father took, serving as a traitor ...
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  Nana’s sources of income did not come from his personal sweat. He is where he is as a result of the booty bequeathed to him by what his father looted from the economy and also the bribe his father took, serving as a traitor to overthrow Dr.Kwame Nkrumah. Now that he has used up all the wealth through dirty campaign and empty litigations, what he thinks of doing is using his demonstration talent to buy the conscience and lobby by using corrupt minds in leadership position in the country; some of them who pose as men of God, to chastise Government and make the country unstable. The tactics of Nana Addo is nothing new to what his father did to Ghanaians. Their sole interest is to make every regime ungovernable by castigating lies, ugly insults, throwing bombs, killing women, burning markets, lengthy shallow litigations in courts and false alarm blowers. What can they boast of themselves and what have they achieved for Ghana? They want Ghanaians to be sub-servants to them whilst in their own thinking and mental deliberations; they remain perpetually slaves to neo colonialism. From his birth he was thought to backbite, destroy, kill and make shameless utterances, bully, join occult and make use of cannabis. If you are a discern citizen, I will entreat you sit up and think, get knowledge and don’t sell your conscience to these reckless generation who don’t care about you than to seek their self interest

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• Appia 11 years ago

  thanks BBC i will never vote for NPP and NANA again

  thanks BBC i will never vote for NPP and NANA again

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• ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago

  This Gonja guy, Mahama is a total disgrace, apart from all his corrupt ministers chiefs must now play the role of ministers and District Chief Evecutive Oficers. Mamamia!!!

  This Gonja guy, Mahama is a total disgrace, apart from all his corrupt ministers chiefs must now play the role of ministers and District Chief Evecutive Oficers. Mamamia!!!

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• Mr Facts 11 years ago

  Our local chiefs are good for stirring disputes and litigation. They are only respected for the sake of cultures (maybe festivals) and nothing better for now. Their credibility as path finders for future generation is non exi ...
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  Our local chiefs are good for stirring disputes and litigation. They are only respected for the sake of cultures (maybe festivals) and nothing better for now. Their credibility as path finders for future generation is non existing as they careless than sale of inherited assets.
  
  How far has befuddled Mahama assessed current cultural powers of chieftaincy in Ghana and the extent those powers have become worthless and limited? Or is Mahama turning on chiefs because they are closing on him on political platforms to make him unpopular? Or Mahama wants to create chieftaincy office in local assemblies to buy them off? Na you dey there.......Atta Ghost will make you restless.

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• Joe Moore 11 years ago

  if we really want to develop we should stop chiefs from involving in national affair. tell me what good has all this chiefs brought to our development? nothing but selfishly selling land to all kind of people without thinkin ...
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  if we really want to develop we should stop chiefs from involving in national affair. tell me what good has all this chiefs brought to our development? nothing but selfishly selling land to all kind of people without thinking of any good development. chiefs is just a bad idea.
  we better band chiefs in ghana.
  but this is my opinion though.

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• Koo Dwomo 11 years ago

  The last noble institution left in Ghana is chieftancy. From the word go, the District Assembly concept as the engine of local government got it all wrong when the policy planners left chiefs out. The chiefs of Ghana are the ...
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  The last noble institution left in Ghana is chieftancy. From the word go, the District Assembly concept as the engine of local government got it all wrong when the policy planners left chiefs out. The chiefs of Ghana are the real representatives of the people at the local level, after all, they are the custodian of lands, not the government of Ghana. As such, they should have been made the presiding members of all District Assemblies, and also act as a check on District Chief executive to prevent curruption. Chief will find it difficult to condone the corruption of the DCE's, in their localities. After all, they could get paid by the local government, and this could reduce the incidence of selling the peoples lands that is entrusted into their custody. Today's District Assembly concept handed to Ghanaians by Kwamina Ahwoi is a wrong concept, due to the absence of chiefs.

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• Mr T 11 years ago

  Chiefs need education to transform their villages and towns. Chiefs must be thought Management, Economics, Land and Resources Management and Inter-Cultural Relations etc. Without Chiefs Educating Chiefs to speed up developmen ...
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  Chiefs need education to transform their villages and towns. Chiefs must be thought Management, Economics, Land and Resources Management and Inter-Cultural Relations etc. Without Chiefs Educating Chiefs to speed up development in their various kingdoms We will continue to be underdeveloped. Chiefs need offices like Managers they need advisors and it is only through the creation of a curriculum that addresses all the problems Chieftaincy faces that we can benefit from their Services. The absence of chiefs in the community, village, district and regional assemblies as well as Representatives in Parliament and other higher institutions is a blatant disrespect and failure of those who drafted the constitution and other institutional policies that bind us in Ghana. We surely have chiefs who have studied at the universities. They can start debating on how they can be included to watch over the institutions whiles the masses watch over the chiefs and the institutions by drafting in timely referendums to keep them in power or get them out. The curriculum must be well debated and enshrined in our constitution to help the check and balances. Ghana needs a drastic change and the will power to implement bold laws that will help us as a nation.

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• Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

  The worst president ever!

  The worst president ever!

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• 8530 11 years ago

  mahama is nothing but podium man

  mahama is nothing but podium man

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• Aggrey 11 years ago

  Where is the financial support.
  We have ideas. Where is the money?

  Where is the financial support.
  We have ideas. Where is the money?

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• Chisquare 11 years ago

  This president am sorry to say is confused. He is to protect the constitution and that is why he took the oath. What has the constitution say about chiefs? Chiefs are obsolete and archaic institution. So far us the constituti ...
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  This president am sorry to say is confused. He is to protect the constitution and that is why he took the oath. What has the constitution say about chiefs? Chiefs are obsolete and archaic institution. So far us the constitution is concerned, the delegation of grassroot decision making and authority is to the Assemblymen and nothing else. Anything else is confusion like the president himself. However, the challenge is that the districts are too many and not viable; the work of the corrupt afari gyan. So the president going round parroting all these rubbish is not here or there. This simply shows he has no idea why he is there as a president, confused as usual and confusing others too. How do the chiefs cooperate? Do they have seats in the assembly? Or they should be giving schnnaps to their local assemblymen or be the supervisors for the projects initiated by the assemblymen (Managers at local level)

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• Kojo Kodua 11 years ago

  Otumfuo, Nana Asantehene, you seem to have forgotten the Bompata chieftaincy dispute case. As a result of this inaction on the part of Asanteman Council, the town has been left out without a queen mother for several years now ...
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  Otumfuo, Nana Asantehene, you seem to have forgotten the Bompata chieftaincy dispute case. As a result of this inaction on the part of Asanteman Council, the town has been left out without a queen mother for several years now, while the current chief who resides in Accra hardly visits the town.
  
  No wonder there is no development whatsoever going on in this town. Without vision, the people really perish, especially the youth of this town.
  
  It is amazing how we fail to correct injustice in our society as leaders; yet we cry for justice when the matter at hand adversely concerns us.
  
  It is equally amazing to observe that cases brought before Asanteman Council can drag for over 40 years without any attempt to call for settlement. There is definitely an urgent need for reforms in the way the Asanteman Council operates.
  
  Nana Asantehene, please help!

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• ABISA 11 years ago

  CHIEFS ARE IMPEDIMENT TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THEY ARE NOT ANSWERABLE TO ANYBODY BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE FROM THEIR SEATS. GO TO ANY CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE IN GHANA AND YOU WILL BE GREETED WITH ALL THE VISIBLE S ...
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  CHIEFS ARE IMPEDIMENT TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THEY ARE NOT ANSWERABLE TO ANYBODY BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE FROM THEIR SEATS. GO TO ANY CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE IN GHANA AND YOU WILL BE GREETED WITH ALL THE VISIBLE SIGNS OF DEGRADATION AND DECAY. HOW ABOUT THE INVISIBLE PROBLEMS SIGNS AN UNTRAINED EYE CANNOT OBSERVE. THAT IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE PHYSICAL SIGNS. GHANAIANS, WE ARE DOOMED AS A COUNTRY IF WE DON'T SIT BACK AND UNDERTAKE AN HONEST ASSESSMENT OF OUR PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. OTHERWISE, GHANA WILL DIE SLOWLY FROM THE ACTIONS OF UNPATRIOTIC AND KLEPTOCRATIC POLITICIANS, TRIBALISM, REGIONALISM...ETC

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