The Konkomba Youth Association has demanded the removal of the DCE for Chereponi, Tahidu Abdul Razak, over a joint security operation last Thursday, where some Konkomba youth and a local chief were arrested after they were allegedly found with dozens of weapons conspiring to launch an ambush reprisal on feuding Chokosi villages.
The 19 persons were arrested at a village called Kunjul after security forces patrolling the troubled district picked intelligence that the residents were planning to attack some Chokosis.
The Konkombas were said to be planning a retaliation of the killing of two men at Nadoni village two weeks ago in a renewed land violence between the Chokosis at Kurbgeni.
The Yendi district police commander and leader of the joint security mission in Chereponi, Chief Superintendent Peter Kofi Ayirezan, told Starr News the people were arrested after a large stash of deadly weapons were found at the chief palace when the troops raided the village.
However, addressing journalists on Sunday in Tamale, President of the Konkomba Youth Association, Charlie’s Ntojah denied the security accounts for the operation and said the Chereponi District Chief Executive should be fired for engaging in illegality by sanctioning a security operation outside his jurisdiction.
Nyojal claimed the authorities are using the security agencies to attack, intimidate, neutralise and disarm Konkombas in the Chereponi district and that of nearby districts including Saboba.
According to the association, the residents were going about their normal activities when the armed soldiers and police invaded their homes and brutalized them before loading them into a vehicle to Yendi.
“KOYA was shocked to hear again on Thursday afternoon 13th June, 2018 that a combined force of Ghana military and police led by the Chereponi district police commander went to Kanjul, a community in the Saboba district and ordered the chief and his people to lie down and they brutalized them, mounted and ransacked their rooms. In the process they picked up 12 serviceable and unserviceable locally made guns and stole an amount of twelve thousand Ghana Cedis (GH12, 000),” they alleged.
The Association is also blaming the DCE for failing, as chairman of the District Security Executive Commitee, to prevent clashes between the two groups. It again said the DCE has refused to visit the Konkomba community after the clashes and failed to provide relief support for the Konkombas displaced in the clashes.
They are also calling for “immediate unqualified apology from the DCE to the chiefs and people of Kikpakpaang”.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM/Eliasu Tanko
