22 REMANDED IN BAWKU CONFLICT CASE (Page 55) Monday January 21,2008

Story: Benjamin Xorman Glover, Navrongo

TWENTY-TWO people who were arrested by the police in connection with the recent ethnic conflict in the Bawku municipality were on Thursday remanded in prison custody by the Navrongo District Court.
The suspects, whose pleas were not taken, will appear again on Thursday, January 31.
They are Abdulai Sally, Sally Issifu, Fred Wuni, Iddrisu Yakubu, Azam Tanpuri, Halidu Yahaya, Abdulai Alhassan, Issah Aruk, Massadudu Danladi, Seidu Hamidu, Mohammed Awal, Balla Abdulai Sulemana, Iddrisu Sulifu and Duada Busanga.
The rest are Hakeem David, Balia Adama, Seidu Agambilla, Nashiru Bukari, Abugri Bennedict, Kassim Sani, Mohammed Awal Hibit and Ibrahim Gambilla.
When the case was called, Detective Inspector R.K. Caesar who held brief for the prosecutor, Detective Inspector John Agyuah, cited the current uneasy calm persisting in the area and pleaded with the court to remand the accused persons in custody to enable the police to conduct further investigations into the matter.
The accused persons have each been charged with conspiracy, impediment in public way, causing unlawful damage, rioting with weapons and possessing ammunition without authority.