People of Buipe to celebrate Damba after three years of Chieftaincy battle

Preparations are in earnest by the Buipe Traditional Council to celebrate the Damba festival in an enormous way after three years without celebrating the unique Damba festival in the area.  The traditional area has been for almost three years now without celebrating Damba festival due to a chieftaincy dispute in the area.
The news has become a sigh of relief to the people in the area, the Gonja Tradition Council and the Northern Region in general.
The Paramount Chief of the Buipe traditional council, Buipe Wura Abdulai Jinapor announced this at his palace in Buipe as part of his New Year message to the people under his jurisdiction.
It would be recalled that the Buipe Wura was deskinned by the Gonja Traditional Council for his alleged pulling of a trigger during a meeting at the Gonja Traditional Council meetings in Damongo somewhere in 2010 which resulted to his immediate deskinnement and a subsequent installment of his successor from a rival gate, Lebupe gate.
After years of legal battle and media war over his legitimacy as Buipe Wura, later last year he was reinstated due to several dialogue and apologies by prominent individuals in the country. After his reinstatement other media houses, journalists and individuals raised issues of soiling the mouths of the paramount Chief of the Gonja Traditional Council and his subjects with money. This was because in the tradition of the Gonjas, a chief has never been deskinned and reinstated from time immemorial.
BuipeWura Abdulai Jinapor II therefore assured people of the country his peaceful coexistence with the Gonja traditional council and his defunct successor.
Prominent Chief, Togbe Afede from the Volta region will be the Chairman and Guest of honour of the occasion. Several prominent individuals and government officials will be attending the Damba festival in Buipe this year.
By: Saaka Alhassan/Fiilafmonline.com/Ghana