{"id":112017,"date":"2015-04-28T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112017"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:11:47","slug":"bunkprugu-residents-complain-about-military-brutalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=112017","title":{"rendered":"Bunkprugu residents complain about Military brutalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;f7rbLxPo3OByNDyyluNBSzS9jG6c8WwF&#8221;]According to them, some of the security personnel are manhandling and extorting monies from them in their homes during curfew hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes some days after one of their kinsmen, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/26\/bunkprugu-curfew-soldier-arrested-for-shooting-36-year-old-farmer\/#sthash.LBaHT1jL.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jabiuk Duut was lately shot dead<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by a Soldier called Private Daniel Appiah of the 6 Battalion, Tamale Kamina barracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a Citi News interview, they appealed to government to call to order some recalcitrant security personnel there on local peacekeeping mission.<br \/>\nThey warned that such brutalities if continued unabated could escalate the instability there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bunkprugu\/Yunyoo district police Commander, ASP Felix Kumado admitted that there were reports of excesses during the operations of the patrol teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He thereby asked his men to exercise maximum restraint in their attempt to enforce the law during curfew hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bunkprugu\/Yunyoo district has always <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/04\/04\/16-houses-burnt-in-bunkpurugu-clashes\/#sthash.hjDAWBP9.y1vX7lzF.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>attracted headlines in the media<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>for some wrong reasons.<br \/>\nThe area has gained notoriety with insecurity always caused by either chieftaincy or land disputes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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=&#8221;f7rbLxPo3OByNDyyluNBSzS9jG6c8WwF&#8221;]According to them, some of the security personnel are manhandling and extorting monies from them in their homes during curfew hours. 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