Emergency National Security Meeting on Bawku Conflict Held at Jubilee House
An emergency national security meeting on the Bawku chieftaincy conflict was held at Jubilee House on Tuesday.
Chaired by President John Dramani Mahama, the meeting took place amid heightened tensions in the area following the killing of six people and injuries to two soldiers, as well as well.
The Minister of Defence, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, confirmed the meeting in a Facebook post today.
NDC executives threaten to resign
As the national security meeting was underway, executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from six constituencies in the Bawku enclave—Zebilla, Garu, Bawku Central, Binduri, Tempane, and Pusiga—threatened to suspend all party activities and resign if the government fails to resolve the conflict.
Their ultimatum follows renewed tensions sparked by allegations that military personnel destroyed a statue of Naaba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II.
At a press conference in Bawku, Yusuf Otumba, the NDC’s Bawku Central Communications Officer, demanded an independent investigation into alleged civilian killings by the military. “As frontline leaders and campaigners of the NDC in Kusuag, our lives are now under serious threat—not only from the violence but also from the growing frustration of our people, who now see us as enablers of a system that has completely betrayed them,” Otumba stated.
