The Northern Regional Security Council (RECSEC), has temporarily halted the enskinment of a new paramount chief for the Bole traditional area.
The decision was arrived today (Monday) at an emergency meeting held at the Northern Regional Coordinating Council.
This stopgap measure followed growing tension among supporters of two rival chiefs claiming legitimacy to the Mandari chiefdom, after the demise of the late paramount chief, Awuladese Pontomprong Mahama II.
Chairman of the Northern Regional Security Council (RECSEC), Salifu Saeed, told Citi News the two rival factions were invited to the said meeting and cautioned against any violence confrontation there.
He explained the moratorium saying, “RECSEC has resolved to put a ban on the enskinment of the late Bolewura skin giving the fact that there is a dispute there.”
“The two chiefs are preparing and massing up and mobilizing their people to come and take over the vacant skin and that has led to uneasy calm in the area and based on that we have beefed up security in the area.”
Salifu Saeed served notice that government will ruthlessly deal with any group of persons who might foment trouble in the Bole traditional area.
“We saw the urgency to call the two factions to give them warning that if any individual or group of individuals take the law into their hands to mar the peace of the area government will not take kindly to that.”
He pleaded with the overlord of Gonjaland, Yagbonwura Tuntumba Boresa I, to assist government find a permanent solution to the chieftaincy stalemate in Bole.
He stressed the need for the two factions to wait patiently for the Judicial Committee of the Regional House of Chiefs to determine the legitimate occupant of the vacant Bole skin.
The enskinment of two brothers, Abdulai Issahaku Kant by the late Bolewura, and Abubakari Abutu by the Yagbonwura for the Mandari traditional area caused the feud.
Both were simultaneously enskinned which created parallel authority there.
One of them is required to occupy the vacant Bole skin after the demise of the late Bolewura.
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana