The Member of Parliament for Bunkprugu Constituency in the Northern Region, Solomon Boar, has condemned the killing of four persons at Najong number 1 over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Whilst consoling families of the dead, he has also asked the police to fast-track their investigations and bring the perpetrators to book.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”zwJpN7nzasllbCYBGIJuSWEitvFGXkpz”]Solomon Boar in a Citi News<\/strong> interview described the killing as barbaric, and insisted that the perpetrators must not go unpunished.<\/p>\n “First and foremost, I want to extend my condolences to the families that have been affected by this heinous crime, wicked and barbaric act that took place yesterday [Sunday] at Najong number 1. This is something I consider as generally unacceptable, and it is my prayer that those behind this heinous crime are brought to book.”<\/p>\n “I call on the security agencies to ensure that they work assiduously to apprehend those people.”<\/p>\n The Bunkprugu Legislator, who is also Deputy Northern Regional Minister, pleaded with residents of the entire Bunkprugu\/Yunyoo district to deepen their peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n “Let me also call on all those in Bunkprugu and Yunyoo constituencies to remain calm and give peace a chance. This is the time that we have to stand together to ensure that these faceless human beings are apprehended so that calm can return to the area,” he emphasized.<\/p>\n Four persons died whilst 11 got wounded following sporadic gunshots on Sunday November 10 at Najong number 1, a community in the Bunkprugu\/Yunyoo district of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n Some residents, particularly women and children have fled the area. The cause of the gunshots is yet to be established though tension has heightened there.<\/p>\n A similar situation occurred on November 17, 2017 over the siting of the capital of the yet to be created Yunyoo district.<\/p>\n On Friday December 8, 2017 six suspected arms smugglers including a woman were arrested for attempting to smuggle six pump action guns and 130 cartridges into Yunyoo.<\/p>\n The suspects are in police custody for further investigations.<\/p>\n Disagreements over the location of the capital of the yet to be created Yunyoo district is causing fear and panic around the Bunkprugu enclave.<\/p>\n Some are proposing Namong to be the capital whilst others are pushing for Bunkprugu.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Member of Parliament for Bunkprugu Constituency in the Northern Region, Solomon Boar, has condemned the killing of four persons at Najong number 1 over the weekend. Whilst consoling families of the dead, he has also asked the police to fast-track their investigations and bring the perpetrators to book. [contextly_sidebar id=”zwJpN7nzasllbCYBGIJuSWEitvFGXkpz”]Solomon Boar in a Citi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":382338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[15363,3,823,15360],"class_list":["post-382284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-four","tag-ghana-news","tag-killing","tag-najong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382284","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=382284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}