Abdulai Bagre, Mumuni Seidu, Issaka Nyikabo, Abu Kadir Salifu, Jebrilu Braimah, Bande Mamudu, and Bande Shaibu are seven Ghanaians who have gone missing in neighbouring Burkina Faso according to Mahama Ayariga.
They are residents of the Bador and Tampizua communities in the Bawku municipality of the Upper East region.
This has necessitated a petition from the Bawku Central lawmaker, Mahama Ayariga, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to activate their diplomatic channels with the Burkinabe military to locate and return them.
The seven, according to a statement from the MP Wednesday, November 1, 2023, said it is believed they were arrested by the Burkinabe military after they had crossed into the Bittu district of Burkina Faso to claim their cattle after they had been driven there.
This followed an alleged attack on nomadic herdsmen grazing the cattle of the missing men.
According to the MP, efforts to get some Ghanaian senior military personnel to investigate the matter have proven unsuccessful.
He also said that he had contacted former Burkina Faso members of the ECOWAS Parliament, but they had been unable to provide any positive results.
“I hereby formally write to seek your assistance to locate and secure the release and return to Ghana seven residents of the communities of Bador and Tampizua in Bawku Municipality who are believed to have been arrested by the military authorities in Burkina Faso and despite every effort we have been unable to locate them and secure their return back to Ghana,” Mahama Ayariga said in his statement.
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