The chieftaincy institution needs reform - Nana Akufo-Addo

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cha 8 years ago

Good leadership

Good leadership
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 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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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 partners," the chief replied. Indicating a nearby young brave,
He continued, "Him? One woman, one feather. Him ?" pointing to a second, older man,
"Three women, three feathers."

The reporter looked at the Chief's headdress. "But you have so many feathers!"

The Chief proudly slapped his chest. "Me Chief. Sleep with all women. Big, small, fat, tall."

Horrified, the female reporter said, "You ought to be hung!"

The Chief said, "Damn right. Me hung big like buffalo, long like snake."

The offended reporter said, "You don't have to be hostile!"

The Chief replied, "Hoss-style, dog-style, wolf-style, any style!"

The reporter cried, "Oh, dear!"

"No deer", said the Chief. "Ass too high, run too fast!"
Ghanabi 8 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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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 politics not governance which they already do traditionally. Even with this, the greedy bunch among them can't or blatantly refuse to abstain themselves. The challenging issue is the thin line between "politricks" and governance. If there is a way to involve them in governance, I believe it will be in the interest of Ghana.
AKUFO, ALL DIE BE DIE UGLY DWARF. 8 years ago

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*HIGHLIGHTS OF NPP MANIFESTO (STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF THE RED MARK)*
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????The next NPP government will abolish th ...
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*HIGHLIGHTS OF NPP MANIFESTO (STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF THE RED MARK)*
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????The next NPP government will abolish the payment of utility bills by students right after assumption of office.

The next NPP government will provide Freedom Cards to the aged to have free access to all public transportation and other public facilities.

????The NPP government will restore in full Teacher and Nursing trainees allowances in the first quarter in office.

The next NPP government will build an Accident and Emergency center in Takoradi.

The next NPP government will pass a legislation to ensure that at least 20% of road contracts awarded to foreign contractors to be sub contracted to local contractors.

The next NPP government will increase the amount of loans under the student loan scheme and restructure to streamline its administration to enhance recovery of the loans.

The next NPP government will construct a new harbours at James Town and Keta.

The next NPP government will immediately right after assumption of office reduce taxes on electricity tarrifs to provide immediate relief to households and industries.

The next NPP government will pass a legislation to require that at least 70% of all Government of Ghana taxpayer-financed contracts and procurements be executed by local corporate entities and 30% out of this 70% of the contracts should be awarded to businesses owned by women, people with disabilities and those businesses established under the YEF.

The NPP government will be working with District Assemblie to exempt Kayayei from taxes and market tolls right after assumption of office.

????The next NPP government will bring back the book and research allowances for lecturers and in addition establish a research fund to facilitate further research and innovation works.

The NPP will increase the common fund allocation to people with disabilities to 3%.

The next NPP government will reduce the Kayayei phenomenon by providing alternative like skills training and a seed capital to enable them start a trade for themselves.

The next NPP government will establish National Sanitation Fund to serve as a funding source to deal with sanitation issues within the country.

The next NPP government will increase the allowances currently paid the Assembly Members.

To deepen the
decentralization processes the next NPP government will ensure the speedy enactment of the Municipal Finance Bill which was initiated by President Kufuor to allow the MMDAs to go to the financial markets and raise funds for their development projects. This will be done in consultation with the Finance Ministry to avoid any abuse of the Law.

The next NPP government will build a new Police Hospitals at Sunyani and Bolgatanga to serve the health needs of Police personnel.

The next NPP government will construct a new Military Hospital in Tamale.

The next NPP government will build two Prison Service Hospitals; one each in the Southern and Northern sectors of the country.

????The next NPP Government will provide free Wi-Fi services in all the school campuses to facilitate students research works.
Rayo 8 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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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 the future?
NANA BOSORE 8 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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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 GOVERNMENT. THESE CHIEFS ARE DISGRACE TO GHANAIANS.
apuuuu 8 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

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 8 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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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 incoming NPP officials. NPP did worse and we are waiting with bated breath
Unite Africa 8 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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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 against you so please stay away from them.
Rashid 8 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.

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 8 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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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 YENTIE OBIARA ( we wont listen to nobody but do our own thing ) so brother Rashid calm down first and lets see what happens with this new govt,With ATOPAHENE there was no hope.Hahaha.Dont be angry.This is africa poliics so take it cool and laugh it off
Kb 8 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.

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 8 years ago

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

Is a step in the right direction Nana. Keep it up
mass 8 years ago

Nana the talking is too much ooo.

Nana the talking is too much ooo.
Kofi Thompson 8 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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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 India's Maharajahs for that reason.

Today, India is a technologically proficient society and a global economic power - whiles Ghana marches time and puts up with the Chieftaincy institution in the name of traditional culture.

What we need is true grassroots democracy in which unit committee members, district assembly members and district chief executives are all elected to 4-year terms and paid well to bring about economic development at the grassroots level countrywide.

That is the only way to bring about real change at the grassroots level. Electing local leaders will make them more responsive to the needs of local people.

If we are so enamoured with the idea of being ruled by Chiefs, why do we not simply get rid of the Chieftaincy institution in its present form - and also take over all lands in Ghana held in trust by Chiefs for their people: and turn them into community land banks that landless people can apply for land to farm on or build on?

And on the basis that all Ghanaians are "royals" can we not turn our countery into an elected monarchy that elects a Ghana Omanpanin who will have a 5-year tenure and cannot serve for more than two terms?

No underdeveloped nation in which inherited privilege exists can ever become a prosperous and egalitarian society.

If we want Ghana to become an African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia, we must first rid our country of the Chieftaincy institution and entrench grassroots democracy by electing unit committee members, district assembly members and district chief executives - all of whom ought to be free to run in such local elections as political party candidates if they so wish. Chieftaincy cannot be reformed - it must rather be abolished.
Deep Thought 8 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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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 which has in a round affected our psych to corruption in all our institutions till now. (Wrongly learnt from the missionary and the colonisers).I think is good to bring Nananom on board! !!
Tt-efo, UK 8 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!

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 8 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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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 for the British to hand over to the chiefs.

Chieftaincy belongs in the past and is out of place in a democracy. The idea of a family being set above others to rule them in pertuity is absurd in a modern society.

Most of our chiefs have caused great harm to their communities, including participating in the slave trade for their personal gain, selling most of the stool lands (sometimes to multiple buyers), and more recently destroying our environment and water bodies by making land available for galamsey and to Fulani herdsmen to graze their cattle and terrorise farmers in their communities.

Chiefs are not accountable. They are not elected by their people, nor can they be voted out.

Any attempt by Nana and Co. to promote chieftaincy in Ghana, to pursue the misguided campaign of his uncle JB Danquah will be fiercely resisted. He should focus on the job at hand. If anything, chieftaincy should be dismantled and the lands nationalised.
George 8 years ago

On point!

On point!
Animal kingdom 8 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.

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 8 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.

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 8 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.

Whilst building dams lets also arm ourselves of fighting mosquitos so we do not defeat these noble ideals of development by spreading malaria.
Georgee 8 years ago

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

Nana most of the Chiefs are corrupt to the marrow and will not be helpful in any government.
Dzolali 8 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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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 abolished.
KWABENA KASAPREKO. 8 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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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 ! WE NEED STRINGENT PUNISHMENTS FOR CRIMINALS, UP TO THE DEATH PENALTY.

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