Police, Military deployed to restore calm at Tafo-Anhwia

It took a combined force of Military and Police personnel to quell what would have been a more serious repeat of previous bloody clashes between the Zongo youth of Anhwia and Asante youth all in Kumasi Tafo, mynewsgh.com can report.

The youth groups clashed late last night when the Asante youth allegedly refused to allow the uninvited Zongo youth to participate in a ‘Soloku Night’ event they were organizing, leading to violent clashes in the night in the vicinity.

The two groups dispersed to arm themselves for fresh clashes early this morning. An unspecified number of people have sustained various degrees of injuries while so far about twenty-five (25) youth involved in the disturbances have been arrested by the Joint Military and Police team.

Meanwhile, all roads in the area have been barricaded by the Military and Police as the Chiefs of the area meet the Ashanti Regional Police Command behind closed doors.

Readers will recall similar clashes occurred in February 2016 between the two groups over the ownership of a piece of cemetery land.

The clashes then, said to have been ignited by an order from the Tafo chief for a fence wall which was being constructed around the Muslim section of the Tafo cemetery to be demolished, led to violent clashes between the Zongo youth and the Asante youth, with reports of destruction of property and the death of three people. There was an imposition of a dawn-to-dusk curfew in the entire Tafo area.