Former Manhyia North Member of Parliament (MP), Collins Owusu Amankwah, has condemned the shootings at Bawku in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
The residents at Bawku recently witnessed a clash between some agitated persons who fired gunshots in the community.
The Bawku conflict has been a bane of the country for many years.
Discussing the issue on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo", Collins Owusu Amankwah called for a truce in the area asserting that the residents' behavior is a potential incentive for terrorism.
Collins Owusu Amankwah also called on State authorities to intervene in the Bawku situation.
Calling for a ceasefire, he stated emphatically that "...enough is enough. The cost we are incurring on Bawku is enough. They should let peace reign . . . I feel the time is come that they, themselves, admit that [look] we can't continue like this".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Well said, fact is that the Bawku conflict stems from a colonial legacy. The times have changed and no ethnic group will allow another ethnic group to rule over them in their land. History tells us that Bawku is for the Kusasis, the land is their birth right. If the colonial government gave the Mamprugu King some rights to oversee Bawku by planting his representative there as the chief because the kusasis didn't know much about Chieftaincy, that was then. If today they want to have their own as their Chiefs what's wrong with that. Let them have it once they are not asking Mamprusis to leave Bawku, fine. However to continue killing each other doesn't help matters. In this conflict there can be no winner. As the saying goes if the baby says the mother will not sleep at night, the baby won't sleep either, how long will the two, baby and mother continue to be awake. PEACE is the answer. I don't see the Bawku naaba relinquishing his position to the Mamprusis, no, i don't see it happening neither today or in the future.