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President Kufuor Angry At Carnage In Bawku |
| President J.A. Kufuor has expressed indignation at the carnage in Bawku and has asked the Bawku Naba, Asigri Abugrago Azoka II, and other traditional rulers to play a lead role in resolving the chieftaincy dispute in the area. |
Receiving a delegation of the chiefs and opinion leaders of Bawku at the Castle, Osu, yesterday, the President asked the traditional rulers not to allow history and tradition to hold the nation back.
The President invited the Bawku Naba to the Castle to deliberate on the way forward to a peaceful resolution of the Bawku conflict which has claimed many lives and displaced many others.
The meeting was attended by Members of Parliament (MPs) from Bawku and some Ministers of State.
President Kufuor said the government could not allow the violence in the Bawku area and the situation where citizens were being hacked savagely to death to happen in today's Ghana and expressed the hope that the meeting would be a watershed that would return the situation in the area to normalcy and set the stage for development.
He said he had to arrange the meeting at short notice because of the situation persisting in the Bawku area, saying the whole nation had become disturbed by the inhuman acts happening on a daily basis in the area.
Recalling two separate meetings he held recently with the Bawku Naba and the Nayiri, the President said he thought the situation could be arrested and the issues resolved amicably.
He said despite his efforts and the intervention by the Peace Council on the Bawku conflict, the matter had not been resolved and indicated that if the situation were allowed to get out of hand, the nation would be held to a ransom.
After the initial remarks by the President, the meeting retired into a closed-door session.
Recent reports indicate that hundreds of residents in the Bawku area are fleeing the conflict zone and heading for neighbouring communities in Burkina Faso and Togo following sporadic gunshots in the municipality last Monday night.
Majority of those fleeing were said to be women and children mainly from the Moshie ethnic group.
Those fleeing claimed that they had relatives in those countries and hoped to live there until the situation in Bawku improved.
The reports said the people of Kulungungu were currently living in fear and could no longer go about their normal duties freely. |
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