The chieftaincy institution in Ghana is charged with the responsibility to structure and regulate the activity and practices of local chieftains (or monarchs) in Ghanaian society.
Succinctly, a paramount chief in Ghana is a traditional leader, who is in charge of directing the affairs of people, which can range from a grouping of towns and villages to a sub-.
Furthermore, he is always the chief of the central capital of a traditional area and by his nobility is the chairman of the traditional council of his area.
It is true, according to the republic’s law, that chiefs or traditional authorities do not have the power to suspend or shut down media houses. But it is, at a higher level of analysis, also true that power does not reside where law, or person says it resides.Â
Power resides in the person who, for the time being, enjoys the habitual obedience of the people and the acquiescence of the law. It is usurpation an anomaly when a person (other than the person within whom the law vests it) exercises power.Â
It is to be expected in a man society that usurpation would happen. Indeed, that’s why we have laws against usurpation. However, when it happens, a true and proper state corrects the anomaly. That’s what is meant by rule of law.Â
So, the problem is not the usurpation. The problem is the unwillingness or, perhaps, the ability of the alleged state to correct or remedy the anomaly and ensure rule of law as it does, briskly, in other places like Kroboland.
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