One of the deceased, 30-year-old Napari, is reported to have murdered his senior brother, Ibrahima over a parcel of land on Sunday afternoon.

Some aggrieved family members and youth in the community reportedly accosted him (Napari), tied him to a tree and stoned him to death.

The Zangu-Vuga assembly man, Peter Yidana, who confirmed the incident to Citi News said police were investigating the matter.

He noted that there had been a long standing feud between the two deceased persons over the parcel of land.

What has become known as mob justice is very common in Ghana, with culprits often escaping arrest or punishment.

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The angry youth invaded the offices of the party to protest against the nomination of Abu Ahmadou as the new District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area.

[contextly_sidebar id=”kRHMitIHSwLKYd8Tc2crw43UcsYaNLDg”]The previous nominee, Saaka Sayuti, was rejected three times by the assembly.

Speaking to Citi News, the Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command, ASP Mohammed Tanko, said investigations have already begun to arrest the suspects.

“The incident at Walewale happened in the night around 9:00pm, and the police were informed. By the time the Police got there, they had vandalized the party office, and also Bawumia’s youth centre and had left. So the police did not meet the trouble makers on the ground. It is currently very difficult to identify exactly those who were involved in this particular disturbance, but investigations are underway to establish the perpetrators so that they will be arrested and prosecuted,” he added.

When asked how the police will discharge its duties since the case was a political one, ASP Tanko said they will continue to investigate the case regardless.

“We were not restricted in anyway by the political undertones associated with this kind of thing. We are not politicians, we look at the criminality of the act and we proceed according to what the law says,” he added.

Bugri Naabu appeals to rampaging NPP youth

The Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Daniel Bugri Naabu, had earlier cautioned the youth in the region to desist from such violent protests over the selection of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees.

He asked the rampaging youth to exercise maximum restraint by respecting the President’s decision and advised all aggrieved party supporters to use the appropriate party structures to settle their  grievances with party leadership and the appointing authority.

A similar protest led to a political deadlock between some NPP supporters and the Savelugu/Nantong Municipal Chief Executive which was recently resolved by a Presidential mediation team.

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 A feud between teachers of the affected schools and encroachers on the schools land necessitated the temporary shutdown.

 The affected schools are Walewale District Assembly Junior High School ‘B‘, Walewale primary ‘B‘ one and two and the Walewale District Assembly Kindergarten.

 A teacher in one of the affected schools, Mohammed Yussif Baba in a Citi News interview narrated the situation there saying, “The cluster of schools has been closed down following an attempt by some encroachers on the school land to beat up teachers and pupils on Monday March 20, 2017.”

 “The schools lands have come under persistent encroachment by some unscrupulous persons in recent times and the teachers in their attempt to save the lands petitioned the District Assembly and the Ghana Education Service last year to intervene and before the authorities could intervene, people were still seen developing on the lands,” he recalled.

 “Today’s clashes were as a result of teachers’ refusal to allow some private developers to commence work on the lands and in the process a feud broke out between the teachers and the developers and had it not been the timely intervention of some community members, the teachers could have been wounded.”

 “The lives of teachers were threatened. Some teachers were threatened with death and that they will die one after the other within 24 hours.”

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