Queens mothers of the Kusaug traditional area has bemoaned what they say is the barbaric killing of a pregnant woman identified as Rukaya Awudu at Daduri, a conurbation of Bawku on the night hours of December 28, 2021. The decease’s crime according to the spokesperson for the Kussaug Queen mothers was her inability to disclose the house of one David, said to be the target of the assailants.
Speaking on behalf of the worried queen mothers, Hon. Elizabeth Azonko made a passionate appeal to the security agencies to arrest and prosecute the killers of the pregnant Madam Rukaya Awudu.
They bewailed over the murder of the woman whom they say has nothing what so ever to do with the chronic tribal conflict “the voice of the Woman, they say is a voice of hope, but we the mothers of the land of Bawku are saddened with this recently renewed conflict in the area, which led to the Barbaric and heinous murder of one Madam RUKAYA AWUDU, a Busanga women in Daduri, a suburb of Bawku on the 28th, December 2021 by some Mamprusi assailants just because she refused to direct them to one David’s House who is a Kusasi. Today, mothers’ have become targets in this useless chieftaincy conflict, our children are the ones killing us, those we laboured for nine months are paying us with evil, those we cried and mourned while giving birth to them are now causing us to mourn, aaaah! why WOMEN? Why our mothers? Where have we gone wrong? Is it because we fed you with our breast milk to make you men? Or because we had to sacrifice by going hungry just to make you survive? This is unheard of in the history of conflicts”.
The Queen mother of the Gumbo traditional area appealed to Civil Society Organisations, the ministry of Gender, children and social protection as well as all other women groups in Ghana to help find justice for the family of late Madam Rukaya Awudu as well as all those killed in the renewed conflict. “Hear the cry of your mothers and come to our aid in our quest for Justice on this heinous crime, the perpetrators of this murderers must not go unpunished and we will not rest until the agencies expedite actions by arresting and prosecuting those murderers”.
The disturbed Queen mothers mentioned Salim Sumbaida, widely known as ‘Prince’ and a self-acclaimed national security operative named Fatawu Nambe, also known as ‘chief’ as the perpetrators of the crime.
Source:mywordfmonline.com Gaspard Ayuureneeya