The National House of Chiefs will soon come out with a publication to serve as its official mouthpiece to highlight matters affecting chiefs and the chieftaincy institution.
   
The publication, which would be known as "Chieftaincy Bulletin" would inform the public about all those who are chiefs of good standing and those who are self-styled or self-proclaimed chiefs in the "eye of the law".
   
Mr. Elias Brutton, a Legal Counsellor to the Upper West Regional House of Chiefs, made this known when he presented a paper on "The law and practice" at a workshop on the Chieftaincy Act 2008, Act 759, in Wa on Thursday.
   
It was on the theme: "The new chieftaincy act 2008; its implications for chiefs.
   
The Upper West Regional House of Chiefs organised the forum with sponsorship from Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, a German non-governmental organisation to help explain the legal aspects of the act to the chiefs.
   
Mr. Brutton said the newsletter would contain expert articles on chieftaincy as well as views and opinions expressed by chiefs.
   
He said the National House of Chiefs would also maintain a register to be known as the "National Register of Chiefs" to record particulars relating to chieftaincy it may think fit or as required by the act or any
other enactment to be recorded in it.
     
He said a person aggrieved by the refusal of the National House to register that person as a chief may within thirty days after the decision, appeal against the decision before the Supreme Court.
   
The Legal Counsellor said the act has also extended the election of members for the National and Regional Houses of Chiefs from three years to a four year term to make the election by chiefs conterminous with the general elections of Ghana.


PF