Opanin, relax - when the number of Ghanaians with the "serf-mentality" (the main factor that enables the institution of chieftaincy to still survive in modern-day Ghana!) dwindles, we shall finally rid our nation of that evil miasma – that, sadly, clouds the worldview of those who are beholden to it. We shall then see the back of today's progeny of those blood-sucking parasites from our pre-colonial feudal past.
Opanin, believe me, that day will come sooner than you think! For those sentimental souls in our midst who think that we would be bereft without them, perhaps we can simply substitute the phrase "Ghana Omanpanin" for the word "president" in our constitution.
We can then operate on the assumption that every Ghanaian citizen is a "royal" (what an absurd word and concept - for anyone who believes in a meritocracy: for whom inherited privilege is the worst enemy of progress!) and can therefore be elected as a "Ghana Omanpanin".
We should then line up all traditional rulers to pay tribute and swear an oath of allegiance to the “Ghana Omanpanin” whenever he or she begins his/her tenure and is sworn into office. We should simply make that a constitutional requirement and let that be the basis for their legal recognition in our country. Period.
Perhaps we can begin by insisting that any important visitor to our shores, who wants to meet our traditional rulers, can do so only in private - and without any publicizing of the event by our local media, under any circumstances. Period. We must not provide the megalomaniacs amongst them with the oxygen of publicity - especially those of them who see their role today as the revivers of the sovereign power of their predecessors.
Can you imagine a more treasonable dream and goal for any Ghanaian citizen to have? Is it not an outrage that a man we elected to be the president of the Republic of Ghana, has actively used the machinery of state to encourage this treasonable ambition of his favourite tribal chiefs, throughout his tenure?
Incidentally, have you noticed how they have now switched to manipulating the Ga Manste - as a pawn in their game of using state resources to promote the favourite tribal chiefs of our "Hypocrite-in-Chief" (as the more uncharitable of his critics call our current president! )?
They are now arranging for august visitors (those who aren’t so important and are incapable of funding projects!), to call on the Ga Mantse - as a sop to their critics: who charge that they are using state resources to promote the president’s favourite traditional rulers. What perfidy!
Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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i thought i was the only one who thinks that chiefs, queens and whatever you call them have no place in the present world in the business of authority because theirs is only derived inheritance! a nonsensical imposition...!
foolish thing for the good men and women of this information age man!
Thank God i'm not alone!
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