Ganale's modern administration leadership was begun by Fit Awrary Woldemeckael Buie Falama(fiit awraarii Woldamikaa'el Bu'ii Falamaa).
Because of his impact and legacy, thousands of Ganale Awraja residents still remember him as their transforming leader who thought ahead of his time.
His nephew, Mekonnen Hassen Buie, who is best known as a great mediator and inclusiveness, kept his uncle's legacy and helped to build the first high school in the Awraja Ganale (at that time Dodola, Adaba, Nansabo, and Kokossa were led by Awraja Gazei) in 1961 and get adequate drinking water for his city.
Rivers include the Keresa, Ukuma, Negeso and Gude Yerso which are tributaries of the Shebelle.
A survey of the land in Dodola shows that 28.3% is arable or cultivable (5.1% of the total was part of state farms), 17.4% pasture, 48.9% forest (including 696.76 square kilometers of natural vegetation and 12.24 of man-made forest), and the remaining 5.4% is considered swampy, mountainous or otherwise unusable.