The Ga Traditional Council (GTC) headed by its Acting President, Nii Dodoo Nsaki III, has outlined new methods to ensure that all chiefs legitimately installed under the seven clans (stool houses) of Ga Mashie are registered.
The seven clans (stools) are Gbese, Asere, Abola, Otublohum, Sempe, Akumadzen and Ngleshi Alata.
The new methods would also seek to address the various challenges, such as litigation, which retards the progress of the youth in Accra and also to improve efficiency in the Ga Mashie chieftaincy.
Nii Dodoo Nsaki made this known at a day’s orientation meeting organized by the GTC to educate sub-chiefs and share ideas with stakeholders on the new methods.
He reminded the chiefs that it had been the concern of government to release all lands acquired for economic purposes, which had not been utilized back to the chiefs and pay compensation, but due to land litigations, all over monies which was supposed to support the stool houses had locked up in the coffers.
He said the indiscriminate sale of lands had diverted most of the youth into illegal activities such as land guards and cyber frauds.
“It is regrettable that 175 cases of chieftaincy and land litigations are pending at the Traditional Council, which are impeding the advancement of the youth,” he stressed.
Numo Akwaa Mensah III, Nai Wulomo, also raised serious concern about the lands, which were sold by people, who were not supposed to, saying that; “today we hear land guards killing people over land, the next day chiefs fighting each other because of land sold to different people and so on, and welcomed the idea of every chief under seven stool houses to register.”
He said: “We need to identify the talents and desires of the youth and work at harnessing them,” adding that; “we cannot do it alone without the support of the sub-chiefs and the government.”
Nii Ayibonte II, Gbese Mantse and head of the newly formed GTC Task Force, which is to ensure the settlement of all cases pending in Accra, appealed to opinion leaders to advise the few recalcitrant ones not to interfere with the work of the Task Force.
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