A youth group in the Kussaug traditional area in the Upper East Region has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of one Aminu Janga, said to be a chief of Janga in the north east region over his pronouncement prior to recent gun attacks of Bawku-Kumasi bound buses along the Walewale-Bolgatanga stretch of the trans Ecowas highway.
At a press conference in Bawku, the Kussaug Youth movement disclosed that it holds Volume of evidence of how the said Aminu Janga and some others threatened to attack vehicles belonging to persons of Kussasi extraction.
Aruk Issaku, spokesperson of the youth group noted that three separate attacks occurred within the space of one week along the same traditional enclave dominated by Mamprusi. He described the attacks as one targeted at his Kussaug and that it has nothing to do with armed robbery.
He called on the vice president to call his kinsmen to order adding that the vice president Name has always been mentioned by the Mamprusi youth as one of their source of support.
“our utmost appeal goes to the vice president , they use his homeland Walewale , already they mentioned that he is their bedroom and now they have gone back home to their home and now they have indicated their home, that is a fact and they have gone home to use the four corners of his home to perpetrate this action so we expect him to say something or take an action in curtailing this “
He called on the security agencies to take control of the situation and bring the perpetrators to book.
Meanwhile, the Mamprusi youth group is distancing itself from the incident. Majeed Bagura in a telephone interview with word news categorically stated that Mamprusis has no hand with regard to the attacks. He claimed that it is rather the Mamprusis faction of the conflict that has been subjected to high way attacks.
” for us as Mamprusis and Mamprusis youth we have not sanctions any other groups to embark on attacks on any other road , it rather we Mamprusis and our sympathizers that have been subjected to various attacks, up till date the road from Bawku to Bolga is not safe , our cars are still subjected to attacks, so if they want this issue to be solved is better for them to call on the government to be proactive in dealing with the root cause not to be accusing innocent people and reverend chiefs”
The accused chief of Lukula a suburb of Janga, Naa Aminu Abu Iddi has denied the allegations levelled against him. He claimed that his accusers are pointing at a wrong person and that as a chief, it is taboo to incite people to violence.
“ How can a chief tell somebody to go and attack somebody in our tradition that one is a taboo, I’m a chief, I’m not a small chief I last told them, they should go to Facebook and see one Kusasis man car spoiled in Walewale by then I was passing I saw our boys helping them to repair the car and that shows our boys want peace so they should learn from that”
Source: myordfmonline.com /Gaspard Ayuureneeya .
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