Osudoku Traditional Council advises citizens in the area

The Osudoku Traditional Council in the Shai-Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region has announced a ban on drumming and noisemaking in the area from April 3 to May 4, 2026.

It, therefore, encouraged all citizens of the traditional area to use the sacred period to seek God’s blessings for Osudoku, the statement added.

The traditional council, led by the Paramount Chief Nene Kweku- Otiti Animle VII, issued the statement at a meeting at Osuwem last week.

Area

The Osudoku Traditional area comprises eight divisions/paramountcies, namely Dorsi, Gberse Dorm, Gbese Terkuorsi, Gbese Kponor, Lanor, Kasunya, Tsangmer, and Klekpa.

According to the traditional council, its attention had been drawn to a notice in circulation announcing a ban on noisemaking from April 3 to May 5, 2026, stressing that ‘’that notice is from unscrupulous persons with the intent to misinform and confuse the general public in the traditional area’’. 

Disregard notice

The council noted that the matter had been reported to the police for thorough investigation and, therefore, urged the general public and the good people of Osudoku to disregard the said notice and treat it with the contempt it deserved.

‘’Notice is hereby given to the general public in Osudoku that the authority to impose a ban on drumming and noisemaking rests exclusively with the Osudoku Traditional Council, as done elsewhere.

Any such directive issued by any other person or group should be disregarded,’’ the Osudoku State Secretary, Nene Aklebeto, who read the statement, added.

At the meeting, the members of the council used the occasion to discuss development projects that each division needed and the need to collaborate with the Shai-Osudoku District Assembly for assistance in the various divisions. 

In his closing remarks, the Paramount Chief, Nene Kweku—Otiti Animle VII, said he was happy that there had been peace in the traditional area over the years and that nothing untoward had ever happened in any of the divisions.

He added, ‘’don’t expect everything to be smooth all the time because we have such people in every traditional area who once in a while will test the waters, but we shall always be alert’’.

Laws of Ghana  

Nene Animle, who is a legal practitioner, told the divisional chiefs that in Ghana, the laws were there and they work, and therefore advised them to ensure they talked to their subjects anytime they met them, not to fall foul of the law, because no citizen would be spared when they go against the law.