CONFUSION broke out between some residents of Kandem, a village near Sheini in the Zabzugu-Tatale District of the Northern Region, and the Chief of Zabzugu, Salifu Lagsu, over an alleged decision of the latter to enskin a new chief for Kandem.
As a result, two houses were burnt down and a motorbike destroyed.
The acting Northern Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACOP) Patrick Adusei Sarpong, who confirmed the story to the Daily Graphic, indicated that residents of the Kandem community claimed preparations towards the enskinment of one Nakyi Kudomdon Kandem was illegal, since the community already had a chief.
ACOP Sarpong explained that the police in Zabzugu earlier stopped Chief Lagsu from going ahead with the enskinment ceremony because he (the chief) had not complied with the Public Order Act that enjoined him to give notice to the police five clear days before the ceremony.
According to the acting commander, at the weekend, the police had information that the Zabzugu chief still wanted to go ahead with the enskinment last Sunday and claimed that he had been authorised by a higher traditional authority to do so.
ACOP Sarpong intimated that on Sunday morning, as the prospective chief was preparing to move from Kandem to Zabzugu to be enskinned, a misunderstanding ensued between those opposed to his enskinment and his followers, leading to the destruction of his motorbike and the burning down of his house and that of his brother in the same locality.
The acting commander stated that when the police got to the scene, they discovered that Kandem village had been deserted and only a few elderly people who could not go into hiding had been left behind.
ACOP Sarpong stressed that there were adequate police personnel in the area and that the situation had been brought under control.
He also appealed to the people to come out from their hiding place and assist the police in investigations.
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