Professor Enock Opoku Antwi, a leadership expert at the Academic City University College has asked politicians to stay off the Bawku conflict and allow the security to do their instill peace and order.
He has berated the hijacking of the long standing conflict by politicians who have politicised the matter with chieftaincy as its root cause.
Professor Antwi was asking natives of the Upper East region to put their minds together to confront the development challenges facing them, rather than resorting to conflicts that have no bearing on their progress.
‘Bawku its own problems of road issues, water issues, hospitals, schools issues. These plethora of problems should be your concern, not who should be the overlord because that has been ruled by the Supreme Court and the politicians should back off from what’s happening [and] allow the police and the military to do their job. Their presence alone will maintain peace,” he admonished.
He advised the factions to dwell among themselves peacefully since they are one people.
“If you kill all Mamprusis or kill all Kusasis, what happens? They are your brothers and sisters. In Israel, we have the Samaritans and the native Israelites. The Samaritans are half Israelites and they’ve had relationship with them to have kids. Some even marry themselves,” he told host, Alfred Ocansey on the KeyPoints Saturday, January 20, 2024.
Following his comments on the killing of the Deputy Registrar of the Bolgatanga Technical University, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has bemoaned the spread of the conflict to other parts of the country.
Speaking on Ghana Tonight Thursday, January 18, 2023, the MP expressed worry over the matter that has escalated to other parts of the country saying “clearly, the situation in Bawku is deteriorating badly and unfortunately it’s extending to other parts of the country. A couple of days ago, residents of Bawku living in Accra, actually engaged in gunfire exchanges.
“Some months ago, there were similar assaults in Ashaiman and so increasingly, it is getting outside Bawku and then citizens of Bawku in different parts of the country attacking one another. I think that government has to be honest and do the right things to bring closure to the situation in Bawku.”
The Bawku Central lawmaker, appealed to “all sides to stop what they are doing. This attempt to begin to attack one another outside Bawku in Bolgatanga, in Accra, Walewale, on the roads, Tamale etc, Zebilla, Binduri, all those districts around us; it’ll not help so I’m appealing to everybody to cease those attacks and urge government to be firm and resolve the issues in Bawku.”
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