Bawku: REGSEC calls for restraint

DOB: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2013, PAGE 17

The Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has called on the people of Bawku, especially the youth, to remain calm and not to resort to violence in seeking redress to violence. The Chairman of the REGSEC, who is also the Regional Minister, Alhaji Limuna Mohammed-Muniru, in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Bolgatanga, said the region, in general, and Bawku, in particular, needed peace and unity for speedy development. He said nothing would be spared in ensuring that permanent peace was restored in the region. After leading members of the REGSEC to visit Bawku, where two people were shot dead last weekend, Alhaji Mohammed-Muniru also met opinion leaders in the Bawku area — both Kussasis and Mamprusis — and encouraged the youth to cooperate with the security personnel in Bawku in their quest to bring peace to the region. “On our part, we will get the security agencies to intensify their patrols and make efforts at bringing the troublemakers to order,” he said. It will be recalled that two people were shot dead in separate incidents in the Bawku municipality in the Upper East Region last weekend. While one of them, identified as Hasmin Yakubu, 28, was shot at Sagabo last Friday, the other, whose name was given as Osman Inusah, died at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital where he had been rushed to after he had been shot at Possum, near the Bawku Cattle Market on Saturday. Two others, whose names were given as Dambilla Issah, 68, and Tanko Haruna, 30, who sustained injuries were treated and discharged from the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen last Friday. So far no arrest has been made in connection with the two incidents, but according to the Bawku Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Ebenezer Kawku Asare, police investigations are underway. By Benjamin Xornam Glover/Daily Graphic/Ghana http://graphic.com.gh/Politics/bawku-regsec-calls-for-restraint.html