{"id":7151,"date":"2024-07-19T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:01:15","slug":"bawumia-reiterates-his-assurance-to-restore-more-adjudicatory-powers-to-traditional-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia reiterates his assurance to restore more adjudicatory powers to traditional authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated his pledge to facilitate the amendment of Section 63 (D) of the Chieftaincy Act to restore more adjudicatory powers to traditional authorities to enhance the justice delivery system.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He observed that the traditional authorities play an important role in national development, but their ability to contribute even more has been restricted by the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his constituency-focused tour of the Yapei Kusawgu and Salaga South constituencies of the Savannah Region on Wednesday, July 17 he reaffirmed his commitment that \u201cwhen elected President, to facilitate the amendment of Section 63 (D) of the Chieftaincy Act to restore more adjudicatory powers to traditional authorities to enhance the justice delivery system. Indeed, it is Possible!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Mahamudu Bawumia had earlier said if voted for in this year\u2019s election, his government would resource traditional leaders financially to enable them to support the government in developing the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that if chiefs are not financially resourced they can\u2019t do the work that is expected of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a meeting with members of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs, as part of his three-day tour of the region which started on Monday, June 10, Dr Bawumia said \u201cI want to amend section 63 (D) of the Chieftaincy Act to empower the chiefs to help the government to govern this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt will help all of us. We need to empower the chiefs to help the government and empowering the chiefs is not only to change the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut to financially resource the chiefs. If we don\u2019t financially resource the palaces of the chiefs, they can\u2019t do the work we want them to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo my manifesto team has looked at all of it. We are saying that we have to pay living allowances to the paramount chiefs and not stop there but to the divisional chiefs and the queen mothers so that we can have a complete chieftaincy institution that is empowered to help government,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Bawumia later wrote on his Facebook page that he was greatly inspired by the mammoth welcome he received from Asanteman as he began his three-day tour of the Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated his pledge to facilitate the amendment of Section 63 (D) of the Chieftaincy Act to restore more adjudicatory powers to traditional authorities to enhance the justice delivery system. He observed that the traditional authorities play an important role in national development, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[2419],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-bawumia-reiterates-his-assurance-to-restore-more-adjudicatory-powers-to-traditional-authorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}