FOSDA calls for the immediate establishment of an eminent Mediation Committee to resolve the Bawku Conflict
The turmoil in the area is becoming extremely serious and should be treated with the utmost seriousness it deserves
The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA) is deeply concern about the recent escalating violence in Bawku leading to death of 3 innocent lives including a 9 and 16 year old boy and girl and several others sustaining various degrees of injuries.
The turmoil in the area is becoming extremely serious and should be treated with the utmost seriousness it deserves. This is because of the negative impact it is having on livelihoods of environs, the Upper East Region and the entire country at large.
FOSDA is deeply worried about the display of ammunitions and guns by civilian making the situation in Bawku is very scary. This is anchored on the comments of the Bawku MCE, Hon. Amadu Hamza who said that “Bawku is seriously crashing down. Education is completely being destroyed. Nurses are fleeing. Residents are running away.”
We share the pains of all parties; we call on them exercise restraint and use the legal means to resolve their difference since the use of arms and ammunition has never resolved any dispute anywhere.
We condemn all manner of violent act and attacks. We are calling on the National Security to beef up security in the area to protect lives and property in and around Bawku township.
FOSDA wish to therefore call of the President of the Republic of Ghana. HE, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider establishing an Eminent Mediation Committee to facilitate an amicable resolution of this protracted conflict that have characterized Bawku over the years.
