Asantehene Concludes Bawku Mediation To Brief President Mahama

Bawku

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is acceptable to little President John Dramani Mahama pursuing the decision of landmark mediation sessions betwixt the Kusasi and Mamprusi factions successful the protracted Bawku chieftaincy dispute.

The last deliberations astatine Manhyia Palace connected Monday marked the archetypal clip representatives from some rival groups sat unneurotic earlier the Asantehene since the bid process began. President Mahama tasked Otumfuo with starring the precocious level bid effort soon aft taking bureau successful January 2025.

Heavy information surrounded the palace, with subject armored vehicles and important constabulary and subject unit stationed astatine strategical points to support order. Both delegations underwent screening procedures earlier being escorted into the Jubilee Hall auditorium, wherever the Asantehene listened to submissions from each broadside implicit astir 5 hours of closed doorway discussions.

A 30 subordinate delegation led by Chief Tarana John Wuni Grumah represented Naa Bohugu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, the Naayiri and Overlord of Mamprugu. The Kusasi delegation, representing Bawku Naaba Zugaran Asigri Aburgrago Azoka II, was led by Naba Tambis Baalug, Paramount Chief of Pusiga.

Otumfuo commended the delegations for their civility and maturity, reminding them that careless of the last outcome, they would person to unrecorded unneurotic arsenic brothers and sisters. A subordinate of the Kusasi mediation squad indicated that the Asantehene listened to some sides and advised that helium was being directed by the President to behaviour the mediation process.

Although nary authoritative communique was released aft the deliberations, sources indicated the Asantehene expressed restitution with advancement made and assured some factions that the committee’s study would beryllium submitted to the President. His ruling is expected to outline a model for reconciliation and authorities backed implementation of recommendations aimed astatine securing lasting peace.

The bid ngo astir reached an anticlimax with a adjacent clash betwixt members of the 2 factions extracurricular the main entranceway of Manhyia Palace. The adjacent confrontation began erstwhile immoderate passengers connected a autobus carrying Mamprusi faction members waved astatine their tribesmen and tribeswomen gathered extracurricular arsenic the autobus exited the palace, sparking spontaneous jubilation that angered adjacent Kusasis. Police and subject unit intervened concisely erstwhile celebrations escalated, with further information deployed to reconstruct order.

The Bawku struggle dates backmost to assemblage bound demarcations successful the 1950s erstwhile British administrators attempted to specify territorial authorization betwixt Kusasi and Mamprusi communities. The Kusasi support they are the archetypal settlers, portion the Mamprusi asseverate a humanities entitlement granted by assemblage authorities.

The protracted quality has claimed implicit 300 lives since November 2021, with devastating interaction connected the socio economical conditions of thousands of radical surviving successful the area. Violence has erupted repeatedly successful the 1980s, the 2000s, and again from 2021, resulting successful nonaccomplishment of life, displacement of thousands, and terrible disruption to education, healthcare and commerce.

The situation has forced hundreds of nationalist and backstage assemblage workers, including teachers and nurses, to fly to different districts retired of fearfulness for their safety. Available statistic from the Ghana Education Service bespeak that 495 basal schoolhouse teachers person fled the Bawku Municipality and Pusiga District since 2022.

Security chiefs, including Inspector General of Police Christian Tetteh Yohuno and Chief of Army Staff Major General Lawrence Kwaku Gbetanu, person visited Bawku to prosecute younker and beforehand peace. The Ministry of the Interior continues to enforce curfews arsenic a stabilizing measurement successful the borderline municipality.

Observers accidental the Asantehene’s taste neutrality and motivation authority, demonstrated successful his cardinal relation resolving the Dagbon situation done the Committee of Eminent Chiefs, connection the strongest imaginable for a lasting settlement. A solution would not lone bring alleviation to a struggle weary portion but besides reaffirm the ongoing relevance of accepted authorization successful modern Ghana.

Officials from some factions are awaiting further connection from Manhyia Palace connected the adjacent steps successful the bid roadmap. The Asantehene’s study to President Mahama is anticipated successful the coming days arsenic a decisive measurement toward ending 1 of Ghana’s astir persistent conflicts.