The Bunkprugu District Police Commander in the Northern Region has called on indigenes of Bunkprugu and Yunyoo living outside the district to call their relatives home to order as the security agencies are gradually becoming fed up with conflicts in the district.
Four persons were reported dead and 11 others sustained varied degrees of injuries following sporadic gunshots on Sunday November 10 at Najong number 1, a community in the Bunkprugu/Yunyoo district of the Northern Region.
The cause of the gunshots is yet to be established though tension has heightened there.
The shootings occurred around 6:00pm when the gunmen arrived on motorbikes as the traders were preparing to close for the day.
Reacting to the recent shooting in a town within the district, Bunkprugu/Yunyoo Police Commander, Supt Stephen Delaport said the police in the district are increasingly becoming frustrated with the frequent conflicts in the area.
“Exactly, we are tired of conflicts over here, we are tired of violence over here…in Bunkprugu here, there is peace but there is too much conflicts in the other towns…,” he said.
The Police Commander who was speaking on Adom FM’s Morning Show, ‘Dwaso Nsem’ Monday called on opinion leaders and other stakeholders in the district to call their relatives to order.
“The onus lies on the opinion leaders and stakeholders to all come here and talk to their people, we are increasingly becoming frustrated…,” he said.
Supt Delaport added that the police in the district are always alarmed by the kind of sophisticated weapons that the citizens wield anytime there is conflict in the area.
“Investigations have shown that the people here use AK47 and G3 and other expensive weapons, we often wonder where they get those weapons from…intelligence gathered is that the citizens have an armory where they hide their guns and go back for them anytime there us conflict…,” he said.
The frequent conflicts in this area make us believe that we live in a form of ‘hell’ here as most police refuse transfer to the area.
“We are living in hell, when some police officers are transferred here, they don’t last, they are re-transferred…we all wish that some of our colleagues will be transferred from here because some have been here for longer times…,” he added.
Ghana / Adomonline.com / KWAKU NTI
We are tired of your frequent ‘violence and conflicts’ – Police to Bunkprugu residents
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