Accra, March 07, GNA-Professor Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has pledged the commitment of the Institute to enhance the knowledge and skills of members of the National Queen Mothers Platform on leadership and good governance.
The commitment, which involves the training of Queen Mothers at the GIMPA School of Public Service and Governance and Faculty of Law, aims at making them more influential and better contributors to community growth and national development.
Prof. Bonsu, who said this at a National Conference and Workshop organised by the National Queen Mothers’ Platform and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, (KAS), said GIMPA was also considering the setting up of a Centre for Traditional Leadership that would among other things provide the necessary research background to support the activities of traditional leaders.
The pledge followed concerns raised by the Queen Mothers to be engaged in a well structured institution to enable them play an integral and more influential role in national development.
Prof. Bonsu said the Queenmothers were positioned to be the best leaders in communities and the nation.
Mr Seth Kwame Acheampong, the Eastern Regional Minister, who chaired the workshop, bemoaned the disputes that had engulfed some parts of the traditional settings, saying it was one of the barriers to community growth.
He urged traditional leaders to resort to using Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures to resolving non-criminal disputes among community members.
He commended GIMPA for offering to provide a strategic structure to train Queen Mothers so they could settle disputes arising from enstoolment among other things.
Dr Darmoe, the Programmes Director of KAS, stressed the need for capacity building towards strengthening established systems in governance.
For her part, Nana Yaa Ansua, the Executive Secretary of the National Queen Mothers Platform, who is Omanhemaa of Drobo Traditional Area noted that arbitration, democracy, and governance were important elements of national development.
She added that those elements needed to be highlighted and priotised among other things to ensure sustainable peace and growth of society.
Nana Amponsah Dokua II, President of the Platform, said her Group would continue to engage various strategic allies to seek partnership in the implementation of its programmes and activities.
These, she added that merited the continuous attention of the National Queen Mothers’ Platform, hence, she said the Platform would establish a structured relationship with the Konrad Foundation to promote that development.
“To all Queen Mothers, regional representatives present here, let us go back to our regions and share what we have learnt from this conference with our sisters who could not be here.
“Let’s also apply the lessons in the execution of our role in our respective traditional areas. If we put in our best efforts, we will impact our communities and the nation as a whole,” she advised.
Source: Ghana News Agency
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