Wa, May 13, GNA - Kuoro Barecheh Nlowie Baninye II, Acting President of the Zini Traditional Area, has asked the Catholic Bishop of Wa, Paul Bemile, to urgently intervene in a land dispute between the Nimoro and Fielimuo people of the Sissala West District to avert a bloody clash.

The Nimoro people who are Sissalas, claim that the land on which the Fielimuo people who are also Daagabas, are settled belongs to them.

However, the Fielimuo people also maintain that their ancestors brought the land from the Nimoro people, therefore, they have the full rights to the land title.

This assertion has not gone down well with the Nimoro people who believe that the Fielimuo people want to take away their land from them illegally.

Though the agitation had persisted over a long time, the situation escalated in January this year making the hitherto friendly neighbours virtual neighbours.

A statement from the Buwa Traditional Council, copied to the Upper West Regional Minister, Alhaji Issahaque Salia and others, the Council said it would take all the necessary steps to protect its 93God given land" against anybody who would want to use force or illegal means to claim its land.

But Kuoro Baninye has sought the intervention of Bishop Bemile saying the Fielimuo people, who are predominately Catholics, should be brought on the path of love, humility and respect for others. "Right now, we think Catholicism has been drifted off the true path and the Clergy must bring followers of Christ back to cherish the truth", Kuoro Baninye advised.

He expressed the Council's disappointment that a group calling itself the Fielimuo Area Development Association (FADA) had waded into the dispute in a rather partial manner.

The chief said: "The People of the Bawu Traditional Council would like to express their abhorrence to the kind of naked lies being circulated by those who fear the truth.

"But we trust that the Almighty God is always with those who know and speak the truth."