Bawku conflict: Bawku central NPP leadership angry with government

The leadership of the New Patriotic party Bawku central constituency made up of all the constituency executives, polling station executives and electoral area coordinators have expressed their utmost disappointment over how government and president Akufo is handling the Bawku chieftaincy dispute which is making the party unpopular in the upper east region especially Bawku central.

The constituency executives have therefore appealed to the feuding groups to put the guns down and resort to the appropriate channel to address the matter.

The new Patriotic party in the Bawku central constituency led by the chairman and other executives have added their voices to the unrest in the Bawku chieftaincy conflict but in a more twist directing the blame on president Akuffo Addo and other government establishments on the increasing tension in the area.

At a press conference at the party office in Bawku, the communication officer, Nurudeen Gumah, said members of the party are of different tribes within the traditional area and the party does not encourage divisive tribalism and the chieftaincy dispute has affected members of the party, thus making the party unpopular.

The constituency executives noted that since the conflict resurfaces in November 2021, non-Mamprusis were killed simply because they belong to the NPP yet the leadership of the party both regional and national level did not respond on that issue.

The group further condemned people who they feel are trying to ruin the presidential ambitions of the vice president Dr Mahamud Bawumia by dragging his name into the Bawku chieftaincy conflict and that chieftaincy issues are purely traditional not political.

According the party, President Akufo Addo got more votes from Bawku central constituency mainly from mamprusi dominated areas to become president and they expected him to have handled the situation well which would have prevented more deaths.