THE Minister of Chieftaincy and Culture, Mr S. K. Boafo, has charged traditional rulers to be God-fearing and refrain from indulging in acts which create suspicions among themselves and feuding factions when they are appointed to help resolve disputes.
He said even though the truth hurts, it must nevertheless be told as it was because decisions they took as chiefs concerning conflicts on successions to stools and skins went very far to determine the future of present generations and those yet to be born.
“The chieftaincy institution is a perpetual one which we must not toy with, if you are a royal so be it, if you are not a royal you must be told,” he stated.
Addressing a meeting of the Upper West Regional House of Chiefs in Wa, Mr Boafo said “the skin or the stool is one and so if it is not your turn to occupy it, there is nothing you can do about it”.
He told chiefs to be wary of impostors who are using all sorts of means to buy their way into families to be able to occupy stools and skins and said the institution had presently become very enticing so much that more learned people wanted to be chiefs.
Commenting specifically on the Wa chieftaincy dispute, the minister challenged the house to endeavour to settle it peacefully, adding that “so we must resolve it amicably and properly”.
On adjudication of cases by the house, Mr Boafo expressed grave concern about delays in the adjudication of cases by the judicial committees, saying that when cases of such nature delayed people read all manner of meanings into them.
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