Royal College to be
established for chiefs-Hon Boafo
Dunkwa (C/R), Dec. 3, GNA - Mr Sampson Kwaku
Boafo, the Minister of Chieftaincy Affairs, has
said the government would establish a Royal
College for Chiefs to equip chiefs with
knowledge on the laws of the country to enhance
their local administrative skills.
He said the proposed college would also equip
chiefs with the knowledge and capabilities to
deal with chieftaincy disputes and other
problems that impede the smooth and peaceful
administration of their areas to promote
development.
Mr Boafo said this at the Odwira festival of the
chiefs and people of the Denkyira Traditional
Area at Dunkwa-on-Offin.
The festival is celebrated each year first at
Jukwa, the traditional capital and then followed
with another celebration at Dunkwa-on-Offin, the
administrative headquarters.
Mr Boafo said his ministry would do everything
possible to settle all chieftaincy disputes in
the country and that a national award would soon
be instituted to honour all chiefs who had
ensured peace and development in their areas.
He reiterated an earlier call on traditional
rulers to recognize the role being played by
fellow Ghanaians to the development of their
places by enstooling them as nkosuohene and
refrain from reserving the honour for only
whites and Africans in the Diaspora.
He commended Odeefo Boa Amponsem III, Omanhene
of the Denkyira Traditional Area, and his elders
for enstoolling a Ghanaian from the north, Dr
Mark Nawaane, a private medical practitioner at
St Mark's Hospital, at Atechem, a suburb of
Dunkwa, as the Denkyira Nkosuohene for his
contribution to the development of the place.
Mr Boafo assured the people that their requests
for a teachers' training college, a nurses
training college and a revisit to the
divestiture of the former state mining company
would receive urgent attention.
On behalf of the President, Mr Boafo donated 10
million cedis to the Denkyira Education Fund and
10 bottles of schnapps to the chiefs.
Nana Ato Arthur, the Central Regional Minister,
appealed to Odeefo Boa Amponsem, who has been
ruling the place for about 50 years now, to use
his rich and vast experience to assist in the
settlement of the numerous chieftaincy disputes
in the region.
He said his rule had ensured the socio-economic
development of the Denkyira Traditional Area.
Nana Kwame Kuma III, the acting President of the
Denkyira Traditional Council, commended the
President for instituting an administration that
is tolerant, democratic and peaceful and has
ensured socio-economic development.
GNA
