So, you believed that the Military’s Private Reynold Yamba, Private Emmanuel Suayem and Private Jabiri Nabil are Mamprusis deployed to Bawku?

I read a statement dated 17th March, 2022, from my good friends, Emmanuel Abdu-Salaam Azubila, John Kwame Adu Jack and Ibrahim A. Mumuni of ADAM-GH (Anchoring Democracy Movement Ghana).

I wonder whether my good friends at ADAM-GH want Ghanaians to believe that these three soldiers mentioned in their statement are Mamprusis deployed to Bawku to settle a conflict between Kusasis and Mamprusis:
Private Reynold Yamba
Private Emmanuel Suayem
Private Jabril Nabil.

My good friend Emmanuel Azubila, is your father not a Kusasi and your mother a Bissa?

My good friend, Ibrahim Mumuni, are you not a Mamprusi from Walewale?

May be, you are not the Emmanuel Azubila and the Ibrahim Mumuni I know. If you are the same friends of mine, then I expect that with your background and knowledge base, you will do thorough checks to establish for yourselves and the general public whether:

(1). Private Jabril Nabil is from Wa.

(2). Private Emmanuel Suayem is a BIMOBA

(3). Private Reynold Yamba is a BIMOBA

Is it not common knowledge that Private Emmanuel Suayem attended Navrongo Seconday School and he has Kusasi school mates who are based in Bawku? May, be you can talk to his friends, and/or do further checks with Suayem’s relative who is the Headmaster of Nankpanduri SHS!

My brothers at ADAM-GH, in this knife’s edge game, you must trust your Sources, BUT YOU MUST VERIFY!

I wish to invite my good friends in ADAM-GH, Parliament, Media Houses, CSOs and other stake holders to join me in Bawku.

Let’s walk about freely, without any Soldiers, Police and BNI personnel providing security, in North and South Natinga, Sagabo, Sabongari, Gingande, Patemeli, San-Natinga, Zongo, Sabondode, Avinga, Yiringo, Possum, Kisongo, Azange, Bo-naba area, Techiman lorry station area, and Highways area.

Let’s converse with Mamprusis, Kusasis, Moshies, Grumahs, Bissas, Fafras, Hausas, Fulanis, Ewes, and other ethnic groups.

We are likely to realise and note the following observations:

(1). Criminals and Extremists and their local collaborators are attempting to hijack the Bawku conflict to create chaos, so they can steal cattle and other movable property, and to settle old feuds and scores through targetted murders!!

(2). The high intensity Security outlay, vehicles and equipment, and personnel deployed by the Military, Police, and NIB officials to contain the fluid and sometimes difficult to fathom assymetric threats in Bawku!

(3). Stakeholders who have not spent days and weeks in Bawku to observe and understand the dynamics of the conflict and activities of criminal gangs/extremists, are being hit and destroyed by one of the most formidable weapons being used in the Bawku conflict: DISINFORMATION!

(4). Criminals/ extremists and their collaborators who attempt to hijack the fratricidal struggle between Mamprusis and Kusasis have gotten the Military and Ghanaians exactly where they want them: Aim shots at the soldiers, and they will fire back! And as usual, Ghanaians will rise up in unison to attack and condemn their own Military!

Well meaning Ghanaians must be smart to notice the different plots and sub-plots of the Bawku bedlam!

It is not over until it is over!

Owula Mangortey
18th March, 2022