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<!HISTORY OF GANLUKA The history of Ganluka in the East Mamprusi Region of Ghana. The first leader Chief) was called Nakpilisi as the first chief of the land of Ganlukuse. The second chief was called Najohrow when he die, the third chief who was instooled was called Naa Afollah after him was Naa Apuzaah a Queen mother. Apirgu was the first person to settle at Busigu with his family. He came to meet Naa Apuzaah the Queen who lost all her family members and was left alone in the land as old as 85 years plus. Apirgu supported this old lady which touched the Queen to make that revelation of the Land and handed over everything to Apirgu family as the sole owner of land as well as the gods. The Apirgu family gave birth to that of Akuufuya Asagya, Nyabila, Dabokira and Mahama. All these men of the Apirgu family have now created the families to form the extended Apirgu family today as a clan.        We have our landmark starting from Bawlungu there is valley separating them from there down to Guborogo to Bisigu to Nhorihie (the Pond) through into the River. This valley opposite Balungu, Arigu-Guborogoa and Bisigu is belonging to Ganluse. Anybody who wants to farm across the valley will have to seek permission from Ganluses before doing so and after the farming, the farmer will gather all and called the Chief of Ganlukse to come and take part of the food and leave the rest for the farmer to take home. Every year in May during the winter season, the Chief of Ganluka will sent one of his elders to go to Pwalugu, Balungu and Bolgatanga market make to announcement that tomorrow all men should go out for hunting called “Kati”  which means Hunting. So early morning men from Bolga will go and join Balungu men to cross the valley and start hunting coming down from there to Arigu, Bisigu and they will also cross the valley to join them with their cutlasses, Bow and Arrows, and sticks, there was no gun at that time. They burn fire in specific places where necessary to scare the animals to come out, whiles the man surrounding the bush so that any animal that comes out from the fire will be kill. Any of them who is able to put the animal such as Grass cutter, rabbit, squirrel, and even snakes. The one who is able to put such animal they are chasing to the ground first becomes the owner of that meat or that animal. The men of Ganlukuses who call for this bush hunting will also be among them and any animal been killed by anybody freshly, they divide it into two and the Ganluka people will take part and the one who kill the animal will take the other part. It was known to them as a tradition that you can't kill any animal and take it away without giving part of it to the owners (Ganluka) otherwise you will die. So all those who went to the bush and by God Grace they are able to kill some animal, even if the Ganluse people have not seen them, they themselves will pass by the house to give their share to them before going home. In the evening from 5: to 6: 00 pm Ganluka people will now gather all the half half of all the animals that they have collected from those who killed them and then share to all the family members. They also give part of the meat to the Bisigu Chief. The place where the Ganlukuse and Bisigu drink together including our animals, we normally do announcement when there is water shortage especially during the dry season. It is a place we have dug ourselves around the valley area as our drinking place. The valley passes through as we describe above earlier on to the river. In the dry season the valley normally dry up all through accept the fish ponds and the fish ponds dry and left only hand fully of water and that also give us the opportunity to call for fishing in the fish ponds. We have three of them and in the dry season we usually call for fishing. The first one is called Adelehiey which is small pond close to the river. The second one is Onrinyea and third one is called……........... The "Adelehiey" we normally call only Bisigu people to join us to go and fetch the water when it left small in the dry season until it finish and leave only the fish that we can see them in the water and then we move in to be catching them with our hands until we remove all from that small water. This one only men goes for that fishing. Then Ganluse family members will share the fish to all who help in catching the fish. The second pond which is called................ This one is really a pond but small and bigger that of the first one. So we normally call men and women from Bisigu to join us in catching the fish and after that each person will contribute one fish to Ganluka people. The third pond is fare bigger than the two and can contain many and biger fish so we normally go to the Pwalugu and Arigu market to announce the invitation of men and women to come for the fishing in the next day. They do similar contributions from each person from what they get after fishing. One day the Chief of Arigu invited the King of Ganluka and pleaded with him to allow him to call for the fishing and the collection of the fish after fishing so that he will use it to take care of his visitors that year. That was the beginning of the Chief snatching the pond from us the Ganluka to become his own. So from that time up to now Arigu people are taking control of that pond. But since that time, it is known to them that the chief of Arigu cannot eat that pond fish if he does, he will die. This case has still not being settled. On the 9th of January 1998, the Paramount chief of Nalerigu (the capital of the newly created North East Region) Prof. Nabilla called all sub chiefs and land Owner to come and declare their landmark. In this occasion, Arigu Chief and their elders went, Bisigu chief and their elders went, Doni-Naa in Arigu who also have their landmark in Arigu went. We the Ganlukuse also participated to declare our Landmark led by Akunfuya Asagya on behalf of Apirgu's Clan and receipt was acknowledged by the Registrar of Mamprusi Traditional Council.

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