A Misunderstanding that ensued between two youth groups at a night club in Tamale last Saturday night degenerated into an open confrontation between their sympathisers, resulting in some injuries and destruction of some property.
A number of persons from both sides sustained various degrees of injuries while some plastic chairs and a room were destroyed in the process.
The incident occurred around the Old Cemetery Road, a suburb of Tamale. Meanwhile, the situation has since been brought under control.
In all, about 50 people were rounded up by the security agencies on Tuesday after the re-surgence of the disturbances on Tuesday morning.
According to a police source, the suspects would be screened and those found culpable prosecuted.
An eyewitness account indicated that one Jamal was last Saturday assaulted at the night club for allegedly stabbing a colleague from the opposing group who had accused him of driving carelessly.
The matter took a political dimension when Jamal, who is said to be a New Patriotic Party (NPP) activist, identified his assailants as members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Consequently, some youth believed to be NPP sympathisers later attacked and destroyed an NDC pavilion in the suburb where the assailants were supposedly based.
The alleged NDC youth retaliated by also attacking an NPP youth base in the same area, leading to the destruction of some chairs and an assault on an activist identified as Hudu Abubakari.
According to some residents, some youth further attempted to burn the house where Jamal resided but for the timely intervention by the Ghana National Fire Service, only a room was burnt in the arson.
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