The National House of Chiefs (NHC) has rejected the recent media discussions that seek to suggest that vehicles given to the house by government was a bait to influence the chiefs politically.
Pugansoa Naa Professor John S. Nabila, the Wulugu Naba and President of the NHC, said it was difficult to rationalize, why the gesture should even remotely be associated with bribery.
This, he said, is because the vehicles were not presented to the individual chiefs and were for the NHC and the various regional houses of chiefs, purposely for official use.
Naa Prof Nabila, who was speaking at the closing session of the NHC�s general meeting in Kumasi, said the vehicles had been promised by President John Dramani Mahama as far back as November 21, 2011, then the Vice President and could therefore not be a bribe to the chiefs.
President Mahama had honoured his promise and presented the vehicles to the NHC when he addressed the house on Tuesday. Naa Prof Nabila applauded the contribution of chiefs to the growth of the country�s multi-party democracy and urged them not to engage in active partisan politics.
He said they should desist from publicly endorsing political parties and their candidates saying �wishing a political head who visits you well is enough�.
The meeting discussed a wide range of issues including the phase two of the ascertainment and codification of customary law project, the chieftaincy (amendment) bill, legislative instrument (L.I) 1960, which had been laid in Parliament, the construction of the house�s office complex at Asenua in the Kwabre East District and the NHC�s endowment fund. Naa Prof Nabila was elected unopposed for another four-year term.
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