{"id":397306,"date":"2018-02-01T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397306"},"modified":"2018-02-01T18:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:37:40","slug":"five-npp-youth-arrested-for-attacking-uwest-nadmo-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397306","title":{"rendered":"Five NPP youth arrested for attacking U\/West NADMO boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Upper West Regional Police Command has picked up five persons alleged to have masterminded an attack<\/strong><\/a><\/span> on the Upper West Regional office of the National Disaster Management Organization [NADMO].<\/p>\n

The five, according to Citi News<\/strong> sources at the Command, were sent to the police station by the Upper West Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan, at about 1:00pm today [Thursday] February 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”n6eNHKReEpmfgw2yLKJniUYnvaYffRbl”]They include Bongaawmini Issahaku, Abdullah Hakim, Nuhu Suglo,Seidu Salifu and Osman Kamal, who is reported to be the leader of the group.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Huseini Musah Awinaaba, Upper West Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Citi News<\/strong> that the suspects have been kept in police custody pending investigations.<\/p>\n

He said the police are on a manhunt for some other individuals who played various roles in the attack that left the NADMO Director’s aide seriously injured as he was beaten to pulp.<\/p>\n

Regional Minister suspended<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President Nana Akufo-Addo has suspended <\/a><\/strong><\/span>the Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan.<\/p>\n

This followed reports that he protected the angry youth<\/a><\/strong><\/span> believed to be members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who carried out the attack at the NADMO office.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Amidu Ishaq, will act in the stead of the suspended regional Minister pending the conclusion of an investigation of the incident, according to a statement from the Presidency.<\/p>\n

The statement added that, \u201cPresident Akufo-Addo reiterates his commitment to the application of the laws of the land, which must occur without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, and without recourse to the political or ethnic affiliations of any citizen of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

NADMO staff on strike<\/strong><\/p>\n

At about 5:00 pm on Wednesday, the youth from the Wa East district, numbering about 30, arrived in two pickups and a minibus at the NADMO office at the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council.<\/p>\n

After the police got to the scene of the disturbances and effected the arrest of three persons, Alhassan Suleiman ordered the release of the suspects.<\/p>\n

He reportedly told the police that \u201d\u00a0This is a party matter, I will have a meeting with them and get back to you\u201d.\u00a0 After that, the attackers walked home freely.<\/p>\n

Following the incident, workers of NADMO declared a strike today [Thursday], and demanded that until the suspects are arrested, they will not return to work.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0\u00a0slammed the Regional Minister<\/a><\/strong>, whose duty is to protect citizens as the Regional Chairman of the Security Council, for choosing to shield the attackers.<\/p>\n

Political vigilantism in Upper West<\/strong><\/p>\n

This incident marks the third major disturbance perpetrated by youth aligned to the NPP in Upper West Region in the last few months.<\/p>\n

On January 22,\u00a0some NPP youth in the Wa municipality vandalized the residence of the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Issahaku Moomin Tahiru.<\/p>\n

The rampaging youth also vandalized the family house of the MCE and two other houses belonging to his supporters.<\/p>\n

In November 2017, NPP youth in Gwollu, the capital of the Sissala West District stormed the precinct of the Assembly and locked up the District Chief Executive, Mohammed\u00a0Bakor in his office.<\/p>\n

They had accused the DCE of engaging in \u201cdivide and rule\u201d tactics, and failing to address their concerns.<\/p>\n

After the Wa incident, seven\u00a0NPP supporters\u00a0were arrested<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and charged with rioting, including the\u00a0Sissala West Constituency Chairman of the\u00a0NPP.<\/p>\n

Sulemana Alhassan defended similar attack on Sissala West DCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The suspended Minister, who doubles as the Chairman of the Regional Security Council, REGSEC, in October 2017, downplayed a similar incident<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the office of the Sissala West District Chief Executive, where rowdy New Patriotic Party youth boldly locked up the office of the public officer.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr. Alhassan, who did not emphatically condemn the action of the youth, described it as a \u201csmall hitch between some party youth and the District Chief Executive for Sisala West that led to the youth locking up the office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defending his stance on the matter, the Minister said that \u201ceven though [the youth\u2019s storming the office] was not legal, they didn\u2019t cause any damage to any property. They didn\u2019t cause any harm to anybody\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Latiff Mahama\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Upper West Regional Police Command has picked up five persons alleged to have masterminded an attack on the Upper West Regional office of the National Disaster Management Organization [NADMO]. The five, according to Citi News sources at the Command, were sent to the police station by the Upper West Regional Minister, Sulemana Alhassan, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":397007,"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":[3,45,16707,16706],"class_list":["post-397306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-nadmo","tag-npp-thugs-attack-upper-west-nadmo-boss","tag-upper-west-regional-minister-suspended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397306","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}