The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has inaugurated four traditional councils in the Oti Region.

The traditional councils were inaugurated with a call on them to ensure sustained peace in their respective areas.

The councils were sworn in by the local magistrate in charge of those areas, Joseph Annan Okropa, District Court Judge at Kadjebi, Nkwanta, and Kpassa.

The Director of Research, Statistics, and Information Management (RSIM), Richard Fedieley, encouraged the new traditional councils to establish the structures needed for the development of their areas.

“The inauguration should be seen as an integration of the people, a collaborative force to reckon with, to achieve peace for development in your various traditional areas. The need for traditional councils became necessary following the demarcation of the 10 regions into 16 in the first term of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo," he said.

Richard Fedieley, who led a five-member delegation from the Ministry to perform the inauguration of the traditional councils, said chiefs should have to effectively deliver administrative and judicial roles and must keep knowledge of methods and tools of alternative conflict resolution.

He said the government, recognizing the role of traditional authority in national development, continued to hold the chieftaincy institution in high esteem and needed the advancement of traditional councils to help position traditional authority effectively.

The four traditional councils from the Oti Region include Apesokubi, Adele, Akroso, and Ntrubo.