There is a wired uproar of anger at Bugri, a suburb of the Tempane district of the Upper East Region over how cash donations meant for victims of a recent military brutality in the area mysteriously went into the private pocket of the local chief.
Politicians, philanthropists and other organisations went to the rescue of some victims who were subjected to some molestation by state soldiers last week, but some unhappy persons of the area are pregnant in anger as they accused the chief of pocketing some of the cash donations.
Sources close to word news indicates that members of the community appointed an interim committee to look into the donations so as to develop a road map and disburse to the victims accordingly, but even before the committee tasked to spearhead the disbursement of the donations get to work, Naba Abdulai has stretched his hands into the cash donations. He is said to have sent for the money which was kept under the watch of one of the committee members.
His conduct has generated some storm of anger in the area. Many berated the chief for failing to quench his financial desires in a trying moment of his people.
Known in private life as Abugri Abdullai, he has equally been accused of failing to render accounts of previous community development levy pieced together by members of the community. Word news source is informed that those donations aimed at supporting basic infrastructural developments of the area has equally gone into his pockets.
He is said to have been caught between the tail of what his people described as unlawful sale of land within the catchment of the Bugri market. Many of the community member who to word news off record accused the chief of selling plots of lands within the area local market square to his cronies without consultation and as such failing to follow laid down criteria.
Naba Abdulai who was enskined barely six years ago is equally accused of selling out sub chieftaincy portfolios to highest bidders. He is said to be engaged in taken monetary bribes from some sub-chief lobbyists including motorbikes, but often failed to honour his part of the bargaining.
When word news contacted him via phone, Naba Abdulai burst into anger and asked word news to stop probing him. He wouldn’t answer questions posed to him and subsequently hanged up the phone. “ You can not talk to me. You can never talk to me. You are not a native of Bugri”. Naba Abdulai told the word news.
Source: mywordfmonline.com