Radio Justice resumes operations
Radio Justice, a Tamale-based FM station, is back on air after some irate youth vandalised the studios on Friday, December 1, 2017.
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Apart from destroying some computers, keyboards and microphones and their stands in the studio, the assailants also subjected the panellists to severe beatings after seizing their mobile phones.
The police is yet to make any arrest.
The irate youth, said to belong to a faction of the Dagbon chieftaincy dispute, are said to have been incensed by a radio discussion on a press conference held by the Andani Royal family in Tamale on November 27, 2017.
Police report
A report was made to the police and those who sustained injuries during the attack sought medical treatment.
The radio station also shut down after the attack and some police personnel were deployed to secure the premises to protect lives and property.
It, however, resumed broadcasting on Saturday, December 2, 2017.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the Northern Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Mohammed Yussif Tanko, said the police had taken statements from the six persons who were attacked in the studio while investigations were ongoing to apprehend the perpetrators.
“We have so far spoken to five of the victims and they say they do not know those who attacked them but they can identify them when they see them," Mr Tanko stated.
Recall
On November 20, 2017, the Dagbon Malima Zogu Youth Group organised a demonstration in Yendi for an immediate resolution to the age-long chieftaincy dispute.
The demonstration, dubbed "Dii Wumti " in the Dagbani language, which is translated "we are tired," sought to call on the two sides in the Dagbon chieftaincy dispute, the Andani and the Abudu royal gates, to help bring to an end the conflict which has brought untold hardships on the people of Dagbon, especially the youth, and had also retarded development in the area.