The items were handed over to the Regional National Disaster Management Organization [NADMO], for onward distribution to the victims.

These comprised 150 bags of rice, 50 cartons of cooking oil, 200 bags of cement and 20 packets of zinc.

[contextly_sidebar id=”XXfJTtnjrzQdDChmS7TwDECstzfua7wp”]It also included 150 mattresses, 20 bales of used clothing, 200 plastic plates, and equal number of plastic drinking cups.

The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, supervised the distribution exercise, and appealed to philanthropists for support.

He asked residents of the Tampulima community to volunteer information to the police to smoke out trouble makers.

Salifu Saeed also raised alarm over the proliferation of unlicensed weapons in the North Gonja District, and asked the owners to surrender themselves to the police.

The Northern Regional NADMO Coordinator, Alhaji Abdullah Hindu, cautioned the district NADMO secretariat against diversion of the relief items for personal gains.

According to him, the regional secretariat is short of stock, and urged the victims to make do with the items, whilst waiting for support from the national NADMO headquarters.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Hundreds of displaced persons, particularly children and women, have sought refuge in the bushes and are living there without the basic necessities following the renewed clashes in the area.

After visiting the troubled communities, the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed decried the living conditions of the residents, hence the need to mobilize food and other relief items for their upkeep.

He bemoaned the situation saying, “Women and children have been sleeping in the bushes for the past three days. The sad thing is that, small children are getting diarrhoea and some of them will suffer from pneumonia.”

“Immediately, we are mobilizing gari, sugar and other items that they can consume without having to prepare.”

He stated that the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) would be meeting with some chiefs from the North Gonja district today [Tuesday].

“We will not sit down and allow anybody to use any barbaric method to fight people just because they think some people don’t deserve to be chiefs or they don’t own land,” he said.

“For this time we have to treat these as criminal matters and let the law take its own course. That is why I made it very clear that after further interrogations if it demands that some of the chiefs are perpetrators, we will lock them up to deter others.”

Salifu Saeed revealed that security operatives deployed to the troubled communities on Monday have arrested more suspects.

He also added that five AK 47 rifles and several cartridges of ammunition were retrieved from the crime scene.

Two persons died whilst several others were injured following the weekend’s chieftaincy clashes in the North Gonja district.

Parts of the Diisah and Salugu communities in the North Gonja district were set ablaze following the weekend’s renewed chieftaincy clashes between the Gonjas and Tampulimas.

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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