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VR House of Chiefs to begin adjudicating chieftaincy cases
before it
Ho, Jan. 23, Ghanadot/GNA - The Volta Regional House of
Chiefs is to begin hearing cases lodged before it following
the recent engagement of a full-time legal counsel.
The House, at a meeting in Ho on Wednesday approved
membership of nine judicial committees made up mainly of
permanent members and a few alternating members.
Togbega Gabusu VI, President of the House, introduced Mr
Kodzo-Kuma Dzanku, the new counsel for the House and
expressed the hope that his engagement "would go along way
in solving the numerous chieftaincy disputes in the Region".
The House had been without a legal counsel for the past
seven years.
Togbega Gabusu, listing the 27 cases before the House
advised the committee members to be "upright, devoid of any
biases, while taking decisions on the cases so that fair and
accurate judgment can be delivered".
He said the delay in getting a legal counsel was not due to
the scheming of any one person, as speculated, but as a
result of real problems of attracting lawyers to the job.
Togbega Gabusu also denied suggestions that he was unwilling
to leave office after his term had expired, explaining that
he and other presidents of other Houses of Chiefs whose
terms elapsed were in office because of a court suit that
stopped elections to replace them.
He said National House of Chiefs had accordingly passed a
resolution "dated December 6, 2007 to extend the term of
office of office holders until that suit was determined.
GNA
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