Kumasi, Sept. 18, GNA – Traditional leaders have been urged to focus on innovative ways and initiatives that will help provide employment opportunities for the people.
They should also desist from engaging in active partisan politics and focus on activities that would unite and mobilize the people for development in their communities.
Mr Emmanuel Arthur, the Chief Executive Officer of Advocate for Social Intervention Ghana (ASIG), a civil society organization dedicated to the promotion of social justice in Ghana, said chiefs had a critical role to play in nation-building.
They should be neutral at all times and provide political leaders with advice and encouragement that would help them to work towards the good of all people.
Mr Arthur expressed worry about the situation where some chiefs aligned themselves to political parties and engaged in acts that sought to divide the people they were supposed to bring together, and said such actions often created divisions in the communities.
He said engaging the youth in a profitable venture was the only way to prevent them from undertaking criminal and violent activities, especially in the run-up to the elections.
Mr Arthur also called on religious leaders to play their roles responsibly to ensure that peace, unity and harmony prevailed before, during and after the 2020 elections.
GNA