Photos: Retaliation in Lower Dixcove!

The reprisals in Upper Dixcove, in the district of Ahanta West, in the western region, have resulted in several injuries among residents during a chieftaincy conflict.

It was the leader of Lower Dixcove and several subjects that were attacked on Monday dawn, resulting in the kidnapping of the leader, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX.

Three days after this attack, heavily built men suspected of being linked to the traditional authority of Bas Dixcove retaliated. Thugs broke into houses, ransacked properties and harbaded women.

Some fled to Busua, a neighboring community.

The tension between the two zones concerns the traditional control of Tuorem, an area of ​​the coastal city of the district. However, a judgment rendered in September 2001 granted the right to install a chief at Upper Dixcove, Obrempon Hima Dekyi.

Photo: Upper Dixcove where Obrempon Hima Dekyi is the supreme leader

But the judgment did little to calm the dispute over the country.

Inner History: The 300-year-old Anglo-Dutch struggle inherited from two Dixcove chiefs

Monday's attack on Nana Agyeman IX, leader of the Lower Dixcove, followed the disruption of a traditional Upper Dixcove traditional authority activity about three months ago.

Photo: Chief Nana Agyeman IX of Lower Dixcove was attacked Monday and kidnapped.

Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of four thugs linked to the Chief of the Upper Dixcove for acts of violence perpetrated at the Lower Dixcove Palace and kidnapping of the leader, Nana Agyeman IX, who was later arrested by the police.

Dixcove, a part of the colonial relic that is part of the socio-cultural fabric of Ghana, is a coastal town named Fort Dixcove, built in 1683 by the British.

The British transferred the Fort to the Dutch in 1868 and later four years later he was transferred to the British in 1872.

The break in power between the British and the Dutch over the control of cities in the western region has divided several communities into upper and lower areas. Axim, Sekondi and Komenda all have upper and lower areas.

And this split continues, more than 300 years after its creation, even if the two colonial powers are still far from the scene. In Dixcove, the British controlled the Haute, the Dutch controlled the Low.

There is the Upper Dixcove where Obrempon Hima Dekyi became the supreme chief 336 years after the construction of the fort. Below him is the Lower Dixcove where Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX is also the supreme leader.