Bawku - MUSEC pledges GH¢3,000. for information on weapons
Abigail Bonsu
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“The problems in Bawku, as we have recorded in recent times, are purely criminal and not related to ethnicity,” he insisted.
He added, “what we need to do is to sensitise our people to know that the recent spate of violence is an action of criminals who want to take advantage of the prevailing peace of the area to create confusion.”
Mr Abdulai said analysing the trend in the area, it appeared some people were unhappy with the peace prevailing in the area to the extent that they would want to destabilise the relative peace in the area, and therefore, appealed to the public to cooperate with the security agencies to weed such people out of the system.
He said when there were conflicts in Bawku, a group of people would go round soliciting funds to purchase arms and ammunition, and when there is peace such people were out of business and would want to create confusion in town.
Again, he said, conflict led to the imposition of curfew during which period people went about looting and so for such people, peace seemed unattractive.
“We need to bring all the people in Bawku together and work hand in hand to weed out such miscreants from our midst,” the MCE added.
Touching on some of the short-term measures taken, Mr Abdulai said the assembly had decided, as a matter of urgency, to install streetlights on some stretches of road in the municipality to increase illumination at night to curtail such violent attacks.
He said the meeting also realised that some communities had no access roads and that a decision had been taken to construct those vital roads linking communities in the municipality to facilitate easy patrols by the security agencies.
Mr Abdulai said the assembly had decided to reward any individual who would furnish the security agencies with information leading to the arrest or conviction of persons in possession of weapons with an amount GH¢3,000.
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