The Ministry of the Interior has placed an 8pm to 5am curfew on Bawku municipality and its environs following renewed clashes on Monday.
The renewed curfew hours follow advice from the Upper East Regional Security Council after four individuals were confirmed dead in last Monday’s attack.
The curfew takes effect from Wednesday 11 May 2022.
The Bawku municipality has been under curfew since the protracted conflict resurfaced last year.
Meanwhile, the Ministry has urged the feuding factions to employ peaceful means to resolve their differences while the government works to restore peace to the area.
A statement from the interior ministry said, “there is a total ban on all persons in the afore-mentioned communities and their environs from carrying arms, ammunition or any offensive weapon and any persons found with any arms or ammunition will be arrested and prosecuted.”
Read the full statement below:
The Minister for the Interior has by Executive Instrument renewed the curfew hours imposed on Bawku Municipality and its environs in the Upper East Region from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am effective Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
Government calls on Chiefs, Elders, Opinion Leaders, Youth and people of the area to exercise restraint in the face of the challenges confronting them as well as to use non-violent means to channel their energies into ensuring peace.
Meanwhile, there is a total ban on all persons in the afore-mentioned communities and their environs from carrying arms, ammunition or any offensive weapon and any persons found with any arms or ammunition will be arrested and prosecuted.
Signed
AMBROSE DERY (MP)
MINISTER FOR THE INTERIOR
Four killed in renewed clashes
Meanwhile, at least four persons have been killed in renewed clashes in Bawku in the Upper East Region, the police confirmed on Tuesday.
Briefing the media on Tuesday (10 May), the Bawku municipal police commander, Superintendent Simon Akabati said five suspects, aged between 17 to 29 have been arrested in connection with the disturbances and sporadic gunshots among ethnic groups in Bawku.
“So far five persons have been arrested; Ibrahim Sawadugu, age 17, Abdulai Mbadu, 18 years, Awudu Seidu, 15 years, Abdul-Karim Alhassan, 22 years and Issah Osman, age 29. The suspects have been sent to the Upper East Regional police command in Bolgatanga where they will be put before the court,” Akabati said.
Superintendent Akabati said although the township was generally calm, a few gunshots were still being recorded in the suburbs which the police are following closely.
Akabati said one locally-made pistol and one BBA cartridge were retrieved during the disturbances.
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