Nai Kwao Otuo V, member of the Constituent Assembly that prepared the 1992 Constitution, has advised fellow chiefs to study the laws and regulations governing the chieftaincy institution regularly to keep them abreast with current trends. According to Nai Otuo, this would help chiefs to play their roles effectively on issues bordering on chieftaincy and nation building. Addressing a group sub-chiefs at Awutu-Mankessim, Nai Otuo stressed that ignorance of the laws governing the institution would only set back the clock of progress. Nai Otuo told them that that unless they took pains to study the laws and regulations guiding the institution and put them into practice, they could not live up to the expectations of their roles thus undermining the effective performance of their traditional jobs. Nai Otuo, who is also a divisional chief and a member of the Awutu Traditional Council, expressed concern about the activities of what he described as "absentee chiefs" who lived outside the country and gave instructions as to how their people should be ruled. According to Nai Otuo, the practice was not applicable in the country’s traditional setting, as it did not augur well for effective traditional administration. The people he said, must always feel the presence and the impact of their leaders, adding that the presence of the chiefs alone could do a lot of tricks in correcting things, which otherwise might have worsened if such leaders were absent. Nai Otuo called for an early establishment of the proposed training college for Chiefs to rectify the lapses within the chieftaincy institution. Source: GNA