The interior Ministry has reviewed \u00a0the protracted curfew on the Bimbilla Township from 4:00 pm to 6:00am with immediate effect, following the eruption of gunfire on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Northern Regional Police Command has since dispatched a team of police officers to quell the sporadic shooting.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”2oU8ZQ9ngwRokQZZgUom2ygomGTXM9Fm”]Reports indicate that, a number of houses have also been set ablaze.<\/p>\n
Citi News’<\/strong> Aminu Mohammed Alabira\u00a0reported that, this latest incident of violence in Bimbilla had been triggered by some disagreements between some local rival chiefs.<\/p>\n He indicated that, he could hear gunshots all over Bimbilla Township, and that\u00a0everybody is indoors except the security personnel.<\/p>\n According to Mohammed Alabira,\u00a0rumors of the tensions started on Wednesday\u00a0evening, following a\u00a0hint that a regent was going to enskin a chief.<\/p>\n But one other faction was against the enskinment of that particular chief.<\/p>\n The\u00a0District Security Council subsequently met, and there were indications that it wanted the enskinment put on hold.<\/p>\n But later on Thursday afternoon, the tensions escalated, and the gunfire started at 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n There have been sporadic eruptions of violence in Bimbilla since 2014, after a contestant in the longstanding kinship dispute between members of the Gbugmayili gate was assassinated.<\/p>\n Over 10 persons were subsequently\u00a0killed and several properties damaged, after some butchers broke custom by refusing to offer sacrifices to Yakubu Dasana Andani whose legitimacy they challenged.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The interior Ministry has reviewed \u00a0the protracted curfew on the Bimbilla Township from 4:00 pm to 6:00am with immediate effect, following the eruption of gunfire on Thursday afternoon. The Northern Regional Police Command has since dispatched a team of police officers to quell the sporadic shooting. [contextly_sidebar id=”2oU8ZQ9ngwRokQZZgUom2ygomGTXM9Fm”]Reports indicate that, a number of houses have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[3893,3],"class_list":["post-292579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-bimbilla-tensions","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292579","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=292579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}