Residents of Pagnatik, a farming community in the Bunkprugu/Yunyoo district are complaining about brutalities unleashed on them by some security personnel patrolling the area during curfew hours.
[contextly_sidebar id=”f7rbLxPo3OByNDyyluNBSzS9jG6c8WwF”]According to them, some of the security personnel are manhandling and extorting monies from them in their homes during curfew hours.
This comes some days after one of their kinsmen, Jabiuk Duut was lately shot dead by a Soldier called Private Daniel Appiah of the 6 Battalion, Tamale Kamina barracks.
In a Citi News interview, they appealed to government to call to order some recalcitrant security personnel there on local peacekeeping mission.
They warned that such brutalities if continued unabated could escalate the instability there.
The Bunkprugu/Yunyoo district police Commander, ASP Felix Kumado admitted that there were reports of excesses during the operations of the patrol teams.
He thereby asked his men to exercise maximum restraint in their attempt to enforce the law during curfew hours.
The Bunkprugu/Yunyoo district has always attracted headlines in the media for some wrong reasons.
The area has gained notoriety with insecurity always caused by either chieftaincy or land disputes.
The recent conflict which necessitated dusk till dawn curfew there was triggered by renewed chieftaincy clashes between the Jamong and Jafog clans from the Bimoba community in Bunkprugu Township.
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana