Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has offered to provide living allowances to paramount and divisional chiefs, as well as queen mothers, if elected president.
He stated that this will enable them to assist the government’s business.
The Vice President underlined that his administration would provide traditional authorities with the financial resources they require to carry out their responsibilities effectively for national development.
Dr. Bawumia made the statements while meeting with members of the Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs on Monday as part of his campaign tour.
“I want to amend section 63 (D) of the Chieftaincy Act to empower the chiefs to help the government to govern this country. It 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.
“But to financially resource the chiefs. If we don’t financially resource the palaces of the chiefs, they can’t do the work we want them to do.
“So 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,” he stated.
