Ghana: Chief Sells Cemetery to Developers

11 November 2005

Accra — The Paramount Chief of New Ningo in the Dangbe West District of the Greater Accra region is dead, but in the trail of his tragic death is a potentially explosive land litigation which could consume lives beyond imagination.

Nene Gidigago Djangmah III, the late overlord of New Ningo Prampram was alleged to have sold parcels of land; including two cemeteries to highly placed people in government and rich individuals (names withheld for now) to the disappointment of the youth and people of Ningo.

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