Chronicle's systematic enquiry into the current situation in the North, particularly in the Dagbon traditional area, has revealed that some amount of tension is still mounting ,despite reports of calm in the area.
Reports say that the people of Dagbon are weary and feel frustrated over the continued imposition of a state of emergency in the area, a condition they found unacceptable, and which some political analysts have warned that if not properly handled, could result in another boom escalation.
According to the reports, the people in Dagbon are particularly concerned about the fact that the politics of the area is now based on the politics of exclusion rather than inclusion, which analysts again believe should not be taken as a mere observation.
The minority spokesman on legal and constitutional affairs Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, in an interview with the Chronicle in Accra last weekend emphasied that, envisaging a stable condition in the area in the interim with the aim of resuming political activities is a share political hallucination, adding that the situation is a real crisis of confidence.
Alhaji Mumuni, who is also the Member of Parliament for Kumbungu in the Northern Region, said he is confident that the NPP government has in no doubt demonstrated a particular weakness in the handlling of security in the area and that weakness, he added, has really cost the country very dearly.
"Don't forget that this same King who has been killed, was on the thrown for 28 years, where previous governments were able to maintain a stable condition such that, the matter never really exploded. The fact that it has exploded, in the manner that it is, with the tragic consequencies, tells volumes of the handlling of security," Alhaji Mumuni said.
He added that one does not know whether the act is just a sheer incompetence or some kind of self interest or a mixture of the two, but clearly it is not an ordinary situation.
Asked whether he shared the same view with others who believe the President's visit to the area could bring an absolute peace and change to the area, the MP and a former Employment and Social Welfare minister, said the President's vist could have certainly brought a change, but added that as the situation remains now, it will be absolutely irrelevant if he should go there, since the situation is already out of hand.
According to him, it is not surprising to him but rather a fact to hear people expressing fear over the safety of the President if he should visit the area. This, he said, seems to him that the security has a particular weakness, when it comes to maintaing law and order in Yendi.
Ex-President Rawlings in one of his boom utterances said that he lacks confidence in the security of the nation and the statement by the Kumbungu MP placed emphasised on that.
The shadow legal and constitutional minister expressed dissatisfaction about the fact that up till now, no single arrest has been made by the security agencies with regard to issues pertaining to the murder of the Yana and the vandalisation of the Gbewa Palace in Yendi, eventhough many names have been categorically implicated.
According to him, a situation such as this is highly indefensible and above all raises serious suspicions. He demanded an explanation as to why over 215 people should be arrested following the recent Tamale clashes but not a single arrest had been made in connection with theYendi conflicts, which rather saw mass destruction and homicide.
The NDC Member of Parliament, upon careful analysis of the situation, said the late king is still lying unburied and the palace not restored. " I doubt it, because at the rate in which things are going, it does not look like Yendi is going to have another king anytime soon."
A sporadic vicious exchanges ensued last year between two royal families in Dagbon resulting in the killing of the paramount chief of the traditional area.
Ghana's parliament has resulted in adopting a resolution of extending a state of emegency for more than times in the area but the situation seems not to be getting any better.
