{"id":184240,"date":"2016-01-25T06:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=184240"},"modified":"2016-01-25T06:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:46:36","slug":"crunch-meeting-over-dagbon-crisis-as-abudu-ultimatum-to-govt-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=184240","title":{"rendered":"Crunch meeting over Dagbon crisis as Abudu ultimatum to gov&#8217;t expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs has moved to calm tensions in Dagbon in the Northern Region, after threats of war by the two feuding royal gates, Andanis and Abudus.<\/p>\n<p>The National House of chiefs met in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region over the threats by the two to sidestep peace agreements.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;W5cMrLAe6V4brgKWibMuzMcYJKn63ZvV&#8221;]The Abudu Royals\u2019 two-week ultimatum to government to renovate the Old Gbewaa palace for the funeral of the late Yaa Naa Mahamadu Abdulai (the 4<sup>th<\/sup>) expires today.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Citi News, the Minister for Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs, Dr Henry Seidu Daanaa says government is doing all it can to prevent escalation of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Daanaa said, \u201cOne thing we will not want as a government\u2026 is to see the commission of violence of the scale or of anything that will threaten, not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two families have been involved in a chieftaincy feud in Dagbon in the region for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The King of Dagombas\u00a0and the overlord of\u00a0Dagbon, Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II\u00a0was killed on March 27, 2002 when clashes broke out between the two feuding Andanis and the Abudus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Early in 2015, the Regent of Dagbon, the Kampakuya-Naa Yakubu Andani renewed calls for justice to prevail in the murder of the late overlord of Dagbon following his displeasure\u00a0with the delay in apprehending killers of the Yaa-Naa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The children of the late Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II similarly demonstrated in Tamale and petitioned government to find their late father\u2019s killers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs has moved to calm tensions in Dagbon in the Northern Region, after threats of war by the two feuding royal gates, Andanis and Abudus. The National House of chiefs met in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region over the threats by the two to sidestep peace agreements. [contextly_sidebar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}