Examples of Paramount Chief in a sentence
There are reasonable grounds to believe that as the Paramount Chief he had direct responsibility for these actions and is responsible for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law and other atrocities.
Existing informal arrangements for redress of land-related grievances for affected persons are through complaints to the Paramount Chief and/or clan leader.
It is customary for grievances to be bought to the Paramount Chief or other clan leaders and it is likely that this will remain as a preliminary step for grievances in many instances.
However Paramount Chief Linchwe Kgafela II, based in Mochudi (Botswana), over-rode this decision and endorsed Nyalala Pilane as chief instead.
The process begins with the Town Chief, then the Clan or Paramount Chief and finally the District Commissioner who prepares Customary Land Grant Certificates which are subsequently legalized by the President of Liberia.
Linchwe’s son and successor, Paramount Chief Kgafela Kgafela III, has since sought to exercise the same power his father had, in order to depose and replace Nyalala Pilane, but has not succeeded in the South African courts.
What is needed are transparent and legally enforceable land tenancy agreements, with rent replacing customary dues.20 Currently, a number of such arrangements have emerged ad hoc, e.g., to support RUF ex-combatants opting for agricultural skills training as part of their reintegration package (in one case, a 25-year lease was arranged by a sympathetic Paramount Chief).
All CDF fighters were male.were asked—rhetorically, but with a clear threat implied—what we would advise them to do if any of the agents of the implementing partners were to visit Makali once more.Like the Paramount Chief, we advised patience, took down registration details and asked for a review by NCDDR, a request readily granted.
Moreover, in 1822, the land for the first settlement was literally taken at gun point from King Peter (Dei Paramount Chief of Cape Mesurado) by U.S. Navy Captain Robert Stockton and ACS Agent Eli Ayers.
The police had to break the lock so that the meeting could take place.81 There are also isolated examples of citizen defiance; the Paramount Chief of Mambolo, Northern Province, apparently sought refuge in Freetown after his community rejected his urging to support the SLPP.82 C.