He said the Ga Traditional Council has been boiling for the past fourteen years due to disputes about the true heir of the Ga Mantse stool.
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Form a committee to resolve our chieftaincy disputes - Ga chiefs plead to Akufo-Addo
Nii Otu Blafo II, the Spokesperson for the Ga Traditional Council has called on President Akufo-Addo to institute a committee to investigate chieftaincy disputes at the Council.
President Nana Akufo-Addo
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He said the President would invoke the provisions of Article 278 of the 1992 Constitution to appoint a Commission of Enquiry to determine who ascends the Ga Manste Stool because of the failure of the many attempts to bring closure to matter by the Regional and National Houses of Chiefs.
Nii Otu Blafo II made this call when members of the Traditional Council called on President Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House in Accra.
President Akufo-Addo, on his part, expressed surprise that after so many years the Judicial Committee of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs had not been able to settle the chieftaincy disputes within the Ga State.
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“I understand what is behind it. You want a situation where there is closure to this matter so that long when we have a left here, there is a document that is being agreed upon which tells you how and who are eligible to occupy the Ga paramountcy. I think the idea is very serious and worth considering,” President Akufo-Addo said.
President Akufo-Addo exchanging pleasantries with some Chiefs at the Jubilee House
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However, the President said he would confer with his legal team to find out the tenability of their request, saying: “At the end of the day, I am also required to uphold the Constitution of the country."
"If a particular institution has been identified as responsible for adjudicating issues, I don’t think it will be right for the President because of his authority to set it aside and go off his track,” he stated.
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