Non-gazetted chiefs will not be recognised
The President of the Gomoa Ajumako Traditional Council, Obrempong Nyanful Krampah XI, has called on chiefs in the area to take steps to be gazetted in order to be recognised by the council.
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According to him, non-gazetted chiefs would henceforth not be invited to events organised by the traditional council.
Meeting
Obrempong Nyanful Krampah made the call when he addressed the state council meeting at Gomoa Dabanyin in the Gomoa East District in the Central Region.
The meeting was to take key decisions on the development of the traditional area.
He noted that a person merely nominated to be a chief who had not gone through the installation process should never hold himself as a chief, stressing that a chief was someone who had gone through all the processes and had the government’s recognition through a gazette.
Obrempong Nyanful Krampah stressed further that a chief who had not been properly gazetted was impersonating, which was an offence punishable by law.
Bye-laws
He added that the council, with support from the district assembly, had enacted bye-laws to improve the standard of education as well as reduce teenage pregnancy in the area.
He called on the chiefs to collaborate with the council to ensure strict adherence to the laws to eradicate all the ills in the society.
He appealed to parents to put a stop to sending their children to the farm when schools were in session, warning that parents found culpable would be severely dealt with to ensure that children were provided with the best of education.
DCE
The Gomoa West District Chief Executive, Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah said that the decision by the council to deal with only gazetted chiefs was laudable as it would bring sanity in the chieftaincy institution in the area.
He further urged chiefs in the area to release only non-disputed lands to the government to facilitate the execution of its projects.
Benkumhene
In a welcome address, Berima Owusu Asar I, the Benkumhene of Gomoa Dabanyin, who doubles as the Kyidomhene of Gomoa Ajumako Traditional Council, admitted that the lack of jobs in the area had put undue hardship on the youth.
He therefore called on the government to attract investors to create jobs for the youth in the area towards improving their standard of living.