THE Tamale Polytechnic branch of the Bimoba Students Union have appealed to the security agencies to step up their activities in the Bunkpuru/Yunyoo District to apprehend and bring to book perpetrators of the protracted conflicts in the area.
They also called on the regional and district security committees to always be proactive in stemming the conflicts instead of allowing the situation to get out of control before sending in re-enforcement.
The students pledged to team up with their colleagues in other institutions to embark on a peace mission in the area to prevail on their people to lay down their arms and use dialogue to resolve their differences.
The President of the union, Mr Dimang Nelson Yennuban, made the appeal at a news conference in Tamale over the weekend. It attracted both students and some citizens from the area, including the Bimoba chief in Tamale, Jacob Jamon Dam.
Mr Yennuban described the continuous influx of arms into the area as regrettable and advised the people to rather expend their energies on the eradication of poverty, disease and ignorance that had been their bane over the years.
Following the rampant conflicts in the area that is considered to be one of the most deprived districts in the country, there has been an influx of arms, fuelling the already volatile situation in the district.
The Police, however, in recent times, have intercepted some of the arms concealed in vehicles bound for the area upon tip-offs. The latest of such cache of ammunitions was seized on May 8, this year at the Fufulso Junction in the Central Gonja District in the Northern Region.
Upon a thorough search of the vehicle at the Regional Police Headquarters in Tamale, 250 pieces of cartridges were found in the vehicle that was heading towards the flash point.
Three persons suspected to be the owners of the cartridges are assisting the police in investigations. They are Jacob Kolan, 39, Goori Duut, 30, Seidu Larri, 25, and the driver of the vehicle, Ibrahim Abdala, 35.
The president stated that the continuous conflict in the district had claimed the lives of many, destroyed property worth thousands of Ghana cedis and rendered about 150, 000 people homeless.
Mr Yennuban, therefore, appealed to the “chiefs and opinion leaders in the area to immediately meet and deliberate to find lasting peace to the problem”.
“As already observed, unemployment and poverty are the major problems in the area; we, therefore, appeal to the government to facilitate the creation of more jobs for the youth in the district,” the president appealed.
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