Dodowa Chief threatens “war” against Ningos over disputed land

The Chief of Dodowa, Nene Okukurubuor Agyemang, has threatened to declare full scale war on the Ningos with whom Dodowa shares boundaries, if the settlers, as he described them, dare try annexing any Shai lands belonging to Dodowa.

“If they dare and continue to disturb the Shai state, we should not be held responsible and nobody should blame us. I’ll repeat what happened in 1826 at the Akatamanso war.”

He said: “We know that we share boundaries with the Ningos on one portion of our lands; we share boundaries with the Pramprams on the other side of our lands, and so if today the Ningos are claiming the lands in Shai state are their family lands, it is not known to us,” he told journalists at a press conference recently.

Nene Okukurubuor said the people of Dodowa have so far chosen not to react violently to what they see as provocations from the Ningos because they don’t want to spark warfare.

He however said the traditional leaders will have no option than declare war on the Ningos if their provocations persist.

“We want to also state, as they said, that we are also not cowards. We have decided not to react to some of the useless things they’ve been saying, but at this time, if they think that we are cowards and they want to take advantage of us, we are just pleading to the law enforcement agencies in this country that they should step in, if not then we’ll also advise ourselves,” he threatened.

Okukurubuor’s anger comes on the heels of a claim by some Ningo youths that a disputed 140 acre land at Ayikuma, which has been leased to the Ghana National Fire Service, belonged to their forebears.