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The Forum for Accountable Leadership (FAL) on Thursday led some residents of Tamale to demonstrate against recent ethnocentric pronouncements by Mr Yaw Osafo Marfo, a former Minister of State and member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

     A sizeable number of residents including known members of the National Democratic Congress, NPP, People’s National Convention and Convention People’s Party, who joined the demonstration carried placards some of which read “Equal Rights for All, One People, One Nation, and Ghana belongs to All of Us.”

     Mr Osafo Marfo was recently heard on a leaked tape where he suggested that other tribes were inferior to his in terms of natural resource endowment, comments which he said were doctored. 

     Mr Saani Mohammed Lukman, Spokesperson of FAL, who addressed the demonstrators at the Tamale Jubilee Park, said “It is a sad commentary on us as a people that our politics and ethnicity have continued to divide us at a time we should be finding solutions to key problems of poverty and underdevelopment.”

     Mr Lukman said the peace of this country should not be compromised on the altar of political gamesmanship by any group or individuals calling on state authorities and stakeholders to be proactive in addressing the issue of religion in schools to halt the divisive political debate on ethnicity.

     He said “Ghanaians have taken note of the dangerous opinions and we need to leave the debate at that in order not to further inflame passions.”