The Minister for Youth and Sports and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has called for peace in Bawku following sporadic shooting in the area last week which claimed two lives.
He has also called on the security agencies to intensify their search aimed at retrieving light weapons and rifles to ensure sustainable peace in Bawku.
The MP made the call after visiting the families of those who lost their lives in the incident.
He also visited three persons who sustained gunshot wounds at the Bawku Presbyterian hospital where he promised financial support for the affected families.
Mr. Ayariga indicated that the government is treating the matter as a criminal act and will support the security agencies to pursue the perpetrators until justice prevails.
He served notice that nobody “will be allowed to use ethnic conflict as an excuse and we will insist that the security agencies conduct searches to apprehend the people and prosecute them.”
The Bawku Central lawmaker said it is his desire “to see people who are convicted jailed because very often, when you effect arrest, there is ethnic pressure from ethnic groups who try to exert all forms of pressure to have people released.”
Mr. Ayariga charged the security agencies to implement measures to deal with the proliferation of weapons in Bawku.
According to him, any resident who will be caught in possession of arms will be dealt with in accordance with law.
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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