As part of the mediation process, the committee set up by the Northern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) is expected to today June, 3, 2014 hold a meeting with the feuding factions at Yiyamba and Biriyamba farming settlements in the Gushiegu district.<\/p>\n
The seven member committee chaired by Deputy Northern Regional Minister, A.B.A Fuseini will meet with representatives of the two factions at the Gushiegu District Assembly.<\/p>\n
Citi News<\/strong> gathered that the two Konkomba clans at Yiyamba and Biriyamba recently clashed over a pending chieftaincy dispute contrary to earlier media reports that they fought over a parcel of farmland.<\/p>\n The said lingering chieftaincy dispute erupted between the two clans prior to the 2012 general elections.<\/p>\n Combatants from both sides of the chieftaincy divide have been re-strategizing to launch an attack in case of the slightest provocation, hence the recent hostilities.<\/p>\n This signifies that the seven member committee will have to tackle the conflict as such.<\/p>\n Three persons were reported dead whilst several households were torched during the recent clash.<\/p>\n Preliminary reports indicated that the combatants engaged in a fearless gun battle over a parcel of farmland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citiffmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of the mediation process, the committee set up by the Northern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) is expected to today June, 3, 2014 hold a meeting with the feuding factions at Yiyamba and Biriyamba farming settlements in the Gushiegu district. The seven member committee chaired by Deputy Northern Regional Minister, A.B.A Fuseini will meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[54,273,1219,347,17],"class_list":["post-22242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-delta-force","tag-education","tag-freed","tag-university","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}