THE King of Mamprugu, Nayiri Na Bohagu Mahami Abdulai, has reiterated the need for the media not to link the alleged murder of the late Moses Alando Banaba, the parliamentary candidate of the People’s National Convention (PNC) last month at Nalerigu to the Bawku conflict.
He also denied reports that seemed to suggest that the Mamprugu youth were mobilising themselves in the Mamprusi area for reprisals in the current Bawku conflict.
The Nayiri was speaking at Nalerigu when President John Evans Atta Mills recently called on him during his tour of the northern region.
The chief, however, acknowledged that the incident was barbaric and that it should be condemned in no uncertain terms.
In a related development, the Mamprusi Youth of Bawku have entreated the Government to evolve effective strategies to stop the Bawku conflict and restore peace to the area.
It noted that “if more pragmatic and very urgent steps are not taken to stop the conflict it has the potential to degenerate into a full fledge war on most parts of Northern Ghana”.
A statement signed and issued in Tamale by the secretary to the association, Mr Bukari Rahman, stressed that the failure of the numerous government intervention in the Bawku conflicts was due largely to the alleged “lack of commitment and neutrality on the part of those who were supposed to act and exhibit the highest standard of professionalism required of them”.
“We appreciate the efforts of the Government so far to restore peace to Bawku but our repeated calls are due to the fact that the Government’s interventions so far in the conflict have failed to yield any meaningful peace besides making it more sophisticated and complex,” Mr Rahman further explained.
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