{"id":292579,"date":"2017-02-09T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292579"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:50:26","slug":"bimbilla-curfew-reviewed-after-sporadic-gunshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/bimbilla-curfew-reviewed-after-sporadic-gunshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Bimbilla curfew reviewed after sporadic gunshots"},"content":{"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.<\/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":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[3893,3],"yoast_head":"\n