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Armed robbery has become a problem for the people in the Sissala East District. Travellers spent a lot of time worrying about problems that they would encounter or unpleasant things that might happen to them when they embarked on a journey to Wa, the Upper West Regional capital to transact business. Armed robbers had been terrorising travellers along the Kojokperi portion of the Tumu � Wa and Tumu-Bugubelle main road and the Sakai �Pieng �Bujan feeder road. That had compelled the District Security Council to ban the movement of vehicles from Tumu to Wa and the vice versa after 4.00 pm. The Assembly had also resourced the Tumu Police with 2,000 Ghana cedis to be used to purchase fuel for security operations in the District. An armed policeman should always be on board any vehicle plying Tumu-Wa or the vice versa and transport owners, operators and unions were to take care of the policemen in terms of their feeding, Mr. Johnson Saborh, Sissala East District Chief Executive has said. He said some armed robbers who had been terrorising people around Sakai had been arrested and one of them killed. Mr. Saborh raised these concerns when he addressed the second session of the assembly on Tuesday, and appealed to people in the district to support the security personnel to help maintain law and order in the communities. The District Chief Executive also expressed worry about chieftaincy disputes in the district and mentioned the Wellembelle Chieftaincy disagreement as one of them that needed the involvement of all to find an amicable settlement. Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, Upper West Regional Minister in a speech read on his behalf, urged kingmakers and all other stakeholders to follow laid down procedures and peacefully select a successor to the Wellembelle Skin to bring development to the area. He warned that anybody who would want to foment trouble and disturb the prevailing peace would not be allowed, pointing out such group of persons or individuals would be made to face the full rigorous of the law. On the spate of robberies on the roads, Alhaji Sulemana urged the district police command and the district security committee to fashion out ways of fighting the menace instead of responding belatedly to victims� ordeals.