Tamale is calm. The Central Business District is also booming with a lot of business activities while the central and Aboabo markets are vibrant as usual.
The political skirmishes that nearly disturbed the prevailing peace in parts of the metropolis have since been under control. According to the Tamale Metropolitan Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abanga Cascar, “We have intensified our day and night patrols in the area and so far, there has not been any cause for alarm as people are going about their duties peacefully.
The Mayor of Tamale, Mr Mohammed Amin Adam Anta, also acknowledged in an interview that “you have challenges as you operate in the city but let me assure you that the assembly would support where necessary to provide the needed environment for decent business to thrive”.
He, however, said that the assembly had already established the Metropolitan Electoral Security Task Force to ensure that peace prevailed before and after the December general elections.
In the ensuing disturbances, three motorbikes and a bicycle were burnt while a shed belonging to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Northern Regional Office building including some stores were also destroyed in the arson.
The commander said no arrest had been made yet in connection with the infractions but that investigations were ongoing to apprehend the perpetrators of the violence.
Executives of both parties have blamed each other for being the cause of the disturbances that followed after the NPP vice-presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, had addressed thousands of party supporters at the Tamale Jubilee Park that Sunday evening.
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