Council allows farmers to return to farms

Wa, June 29, GNA - The Zini/Buwa Traditional Council in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region has agreed to allow Daagaba farmers in Fielimoa community to go back to their farms.

The Acting President of the Council Kuoro Barecheh Nlowie Baninye, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that, the Council had decided to allow farmers to go about their farming activities while appropriate measures were taken to find an amicable solution to the protracted land dispute between the Nimoro and Fielimoa communities.

He said the Council held a stakeholder's meeting on June 23 to resolve the dispute and it was agreed that the Council should resort to legal means to take back its lands from the Daagaba in Fielimoa.

Kuoro Baninye said it was not the intention of the Council to remove any settler from its lands but would want recognition from them that the lands on which they had been settled belonged to the Sissala.

He said the Sissala were peace loving people and would not like to have any conflict with its neighbours over land.

Kuoro Baninye who is also the Chief of Niator called for land reforms in his traditional area to help resolve all land disputes.

He however blamed Mr Francis Danikuu who he described as a self imposed chief of Fielimoa for causing the misunderstanding between the two communities.

He said the Zini/Buwa Traditional Council enskins Chiefs for the Fielimoa community adding that the Council did not recognize Mr Danikuu as chief of Fielimoa and warned him to stop posing himself as a chief of the community.

Kuoro Baninye said the Council recognized Naa Danikuu Dery as the legitimate chief of Fielimoa and warned that all community headmen who pay allegiance to Mr Francis Danikuu would be removed and new headmen enskined to help bring peace to the area.

The Acting President of the Council said it had come to the notice of the Council that Mr Francis Danikuu had started selling land in Fielimoa to private developers and appealed to all those who bought land from him to bring their documents to the Council for vetting and approval.

Any developer who failed to comply with the directive would have him or herself to blame, he warned.