The Bawku Traditional Council stands for the welfare of all the people of the area irrespective of ethnic differences. Even more unifying is the fact that they have inter married and did things in common as one people.
“We therefore call on all our people to exercise restraint in these trying moments to allow the conflict situation return to normal as quickly as possible to enable all the people to move freely in pursuit of their means of livelihood, after all we are one people with a common destiny.”
The paramount chief of the Bawku traditional area, Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II said this at a press conference organised at his palace in Bawku to address certain issues following the recent communal conflict between the ethnic tribes, Kusasis and Mamprusis in Bawku.
He said to allow lasting stability return to Bawku as quickly as possible the truth about the remote cause of the disturbances in Bawku which is chieftaincy dispute must be told in plain language for the whole world to hear and appreciate.
Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka ll, said the chieftaincy disputes had been resolved by the highest courts of competent jurisdiction in Ghana, firstly, by court of appeal in 1958 and secondly by the Supreme Court in 2003, hence chieftaincy matter in Bawku is legally a dead letter. He said “government and state institutions concerned need to tell the mamprusis the truth that Bawku chieftaincy has been settled for ever”
He appealed to government officials in particular to stop condoning the practice of a parallel chieftaincy in Bawku by visiting a group and addressing their regents. This attitude, he said, gives false hopes to the Mamprusis that they can be chiefs or are chiefs, which is not the case.
“The current situation in Bawku as we see it, is that though the guns are silent now, there is an uneasy calm, and the area is divided into hostile zones, with the Mamprusis based between the centre of the town and the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital, and the Kusaiss virtually surround the Mamprusis such that members of each community cannot cross into “enemy” territory and get out scot-free, unless they are escorted by members of the security agencies patrolling the town which certainly is not a healthy state of affairs” he lamented.
He said we demand that rule of law must be enforced in Bawku as it has always been in Ghana and that no individual or group should be allowed to use violence in pursuit of their private agenda, flouting the laws of the land with impunity.
Source: ISD (James Dorgbetor)
“We therefore call on all our people to exercise restraint in these trying moments to allow the conflict situation return to normal as quickly as possible to enable all the people to move freely in pursuit of their means of livelihood, after all we are one people with a common destiny.”
The paramount chief of the Bawku traditional area, Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II said this at a press conference organised at his palace in Bawku to address certain issues following the recent communal conflict between the ethnic tribes, Kusasis and Mamprusis in Bawku.
He said to allow lasting stability return to Bawku as quickly as possible the truth about the remote cause of the disturbances in Bawku which is chieftaincy dispute must be told in plain language for the whole world to hear and appreciate.
Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka ll, said the chieftaincy disputes had been resolved by the highest courts of competent jurisdiction in Ghana, firstly, by court of appeal in 1958 and secondly by the Supreme Court in 2003, hence chieftaincy matter in Bawku is legally a dead letter. He said “government and state institutions concerned need to tell the mamprusis the truth that Bawku chieftaincy has been settled for ever”
He appealed to government officials in particular to stop condoning the practice of a parallel chieftaincy in Bawku by visiting a group and addressing their regents. This attitude, he said, gives false hopes to the Mamprusis that they can be chiefs or are chiefs, which is not the case.
“The current situation in Bawku as we see it, is that though the guns are silent now, there is an uneasy calm, and the area is divided into hostile zones, with the Mamprusis based between the centre of the town and the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital, and the Kusaiss virtually surround the Mamprusis such that members of each community cannot cross into “enemy” territory and get out scot-free, unless they are escorted by members of the security agencies patrolling the town which certainly is not a healthy state of affairs” he lamented.
He said we demand that rule of law must be enforced in Bawku as it has always been in Ghana and that no individual or group should be allowed to use violence in pursuit of their private agenda, flouting the laws of the land with impunity.
Source: ISD (James Dorgbetor)
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