Interior ministry renews curfew in Walewale amid security concerns

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• OKUJZETO ABLAKWA KRONFOUR 9 months ago

  How are you foolish Ghanaians, who voted John Dariga Mahama back into power, enjoying your DUMSOR? This is just the beginning, enjoy.

  How are you foolish Ghanaians, who voted John Dariga Mahama back into power, enjoying your DUMSOR? This is just the beginning, enjoy.

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• OKUJZETO ABLAKWA KRONFOUR 9 months ago

  How are you foolish Ghanaians, who voted John Dariga Mahama back into power, enjoying your DUMSOR? This is just the beginning, enjoy.

  How are you foolish Ghanaians, who voted John Dariga Mahama back into power, enjoying your DUMSOR? This is just the beginning, enjoy.

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• PID 9 months ago

  Please is the IGP coming to work tomorrow

  Please is the IGP coming to work tomorrow

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• Joseph 9 months ago

  If the curfew in Walewale is for genuine reasons, may ALLAH SWT bless Hon Muntaka, Hon Omane Boamah and Ayariga. But if it is carried out just to punish Walewale people unjustly, may ALLAH SWT punish them accordingly especial ...
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  If the curfew in Walewale is for genuine reasons, may ALLAH SWT bless Hon Muntaka, Hon Omane Boamah and Ayariga. But if it is carried out just to punish Walewale people unjustly, may ALLAH SWT punish them accordingly especially Hon Muntaka and Ayariga because attacks and killing is worse at Zebila, Garu and Pusiga than Walewale. Why are they also not under curfew but only Walewale.

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• Yabiobeni 9 months ago

  This is the result when power is callously handed to incompetent, greedy bastards with stooges as their ministers. What good do you expect from the likes of Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak who has never exhibited intelligence in con ...
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  This is the result when power is callously handed to incompetent, greedy bastards with stooges as their ministers. What good do you expect from the likes of Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak who has never exhibited intelligence in conduct since his coming into the public life? NDC people are a disaster, not unfortunate. Less than 60 days in office and simple problems are eating them up, no clue to any solution of any sort. Tweeaa kai. Tierigu

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• Kumah 9 months ago

  They should stop harboring criminals from Bawku because those people are not Mamprusis. Why tarnish the image of you town like that

  They should stop harboring criminals from Bawku because those people are not Mamprusis. Why tarnish the image of you town like that

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• Philip 9 months ago

  @Kumah. 1. Every Mamprusi you see in Bawku trace his or her lineage to the legendary Naa Atabia unlike Kusasis who are whose chief himself is not a Kusasis but a Yanga by tribe.
  
  2. If attacks by Kusasi in Binduri, Garu, Z ...
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  @Kumah. 1. Every Mamprusi you see in Bawku trace his or her lineage to the legendary Naa Atabia unlike Kusasis who are whose chief himself is not a Kusasis but a Yanga by tribe.
  
  2. If attacks by Kusasi in Binduri, Garu, Zebila and Pusiga which are all outside Bawku stopped, not car will be attacked in Walewale since Walewale attacks are always reciprocal. Without that no intimidation by Ayariga and NDC government will stop the attacks in Walewale and thank God the recent brutalities has even radicalsed them instead.
  
  3. May God in His mercy bring peace to Bawku because in conflict no one wins.

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• Yadanaya 9 months ago

  Thank you @Philip. That's what some of us have always maintained. Seek amicable solutions to problems rather than resorting to the use of the military. Force doesn't eliminate a problem nor end the resolve of a determined peo ...
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  Thank you @Philip. That's what some of us have always maintained. Seek amicable solutions to problems rather than resorting to the use of the military. Force doesn't eliminate a problem nor end the resolve of a determined people. It rather aggravates it. So you are right. The current approach has sought to radicalise the people instead of cowing them into deterrence. Walewale was peaceful before the imposition of the curfew and deployment of the military there (which is the cheapest and wrong approach). Now why do you fear to lift the curfew? Don't you think by relying on that cheap solution you have rather aggravated the situation? That's Ghana for you.

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• True Ghanaian 9 months ago

  1. If you trace your roots to one Aabia, it still doesn't change the fact that you came to Bawku as settlers to do business.
  
  It also doesn't change the fact that it is Kusasis who gave you land to settle where you are cur ...
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  1. If you trace your roots to one Aabia, it still doesn't change the fact that you came to Bawku as settlers to do business.
  
  It also doesn't change the fact that it is Kusasis who gave you land to settle where you are currently. They were and still are the original inhabitants of that land. The Bawkzua clan who are Tendanas in particular are people who gave you land as settlers.
  
  It is that same clan that owns the land and pacifies the gods even where mamprusis settled. And they do so using their language which is Kusaal.
  
  2. There is no history that says Mamprusi settlers who came to Bawku to set up a military outpost conquered their hosts the Kusasis to settle in Bawku.
  
  That's is to say, the mamprusi settlers were merely settler chiefs. They had no traditional historical authority over their hosts the Kusasis. It is only when the europeans came that they unjustly gave Mamprusi chiefs powers they did not have before.
  
  In fact, there is history to show that whenever a Mamprusi settler chief overstepped his boundaries he was either killed or driven back to Gambaga.
  
  3. I challenge any Mamprusi who claims Bawku is for him to dare raise a calabash and pacify the land in public and let's see.
  
  4. Innocent travelers including foreign nationals have died in and around walewale. A bus was burned right in front of the walewale police station during Bawumia and Nana Addos times, not a single person was picked up. This disregard for law and order because you thought you had Bawumia, a Mamprusi man as vice has now come to an end and you have foolishly dragged walewale into a conflict they know nothing about.
  
  Lastly, I challenge you to tell the world how all the suburbs under Bawku got their names many of which as Kusasi names since you claim to have founded Bawku. Where did the name Bawkzua come from? You guys have taken this matter to court severally and you have lost. In 1958 it went to Appeal court, you lost. In 2003 you went to Supreme court, you lost and were fined 10 million old ghana cedis.
  
  What sort of people are you who think you are above the law?

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• True Ghanaian 9 months ago

  *Atabia.
  
  I have another question. Since you claim you are original settlers , how come your mothers and grandmothers are Kusasis and not Mamprusis? You mean you left your Mamprusi women in Gambaga and miraculously came to ...
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  *Atabia.
  
  I have another question. Since you claim you are original settlers , how come your mothers and grandmothers are Kusasis and not Mamprusis? You mean you left your Mamprusi women in Gambaga and miraculously came to Bawku to find Kusasi women? Where did the Kusasi women appear from?

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• Abdul Samed 9 months ago

  You seem to be writing your history now.. It's not true that Mamprusis came and married kusasi women. Mamprusis started marrying Kusasis in the 1950s when Kusasis moved in droves from Burkina Faso. It is also not true that ...
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  You seem to be writing your history now.. It's not true that Mamprusis came and married kusasi women. Mamprusis started marrying Kusasis in the 1950s when Kusasis moved in droves from Burkina Faso. It is also not true that Bawku derived its name from Bawkzua but rather the opposite. Bawku is purely a Mamprusi name and the first Kusasis settlement was close to Bawku hence the name Bawkzua which means Bawku's neighbour or friend.
  Refer to Symes book and it will tell you that Mamprusis were in Bawku over two centuries before the Kusasis came and settled around it.
  The settlement pattern is same with Dagbon and Nanung but komkombas have never laid claim to these areas.

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• Philip 9 months ago

  @True Ghanaian. My was in response to Kumah who claimed Bawku Mamprusis are not pure Mamprusis. I will be happy if you can proof that the Kusasis chief is not a Yanga by tribe. Giving us the name of his great grand father and ...
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  @True Ghanaian. My was in response to Kumah who claimed Bawku Mamprusis are not pure Mamprusis. I will be happy if you can proof that the Kusasis chief is not a Yanga by tribe. Giving us the name of his great grand father and where his grave is will help. No insult. I need education. Thank you Mr True Ghana.

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• True Ghanaian 9 months ago

  The fact that Yangas are his uncle is a nonstarter.
  
  At the core of the debate is whether Bawku is a Kusasi land. Irrespective of whether has occupied a chieftaincy title on Kusasi land, it will still not change the fact t ...
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  The fact that Yangas are his uncle is a nonstarter.
  
  At the core of the debate is whether Bawku is a Kusasi land. Irrespective of whether has occupied a chieftaincy title on Kusasi land, it will still not change the fact that Kusasi land remains Kusasi land. If you can demonstrate to me where the current Overlord of Kusasis has suggested that Bawku belongs to Yangas, I can answer appropriately.
  
  You have lived with Kusasis for centuries but refuse to assimilate. You rather want the larger group which is Kusasis to become Mamprusis, it will never happen.
  
  More to the point, how many of you even speak Mampruli? You speak Mossi and Hausa but defiantly refuse to speak the language of your host, the Kusasis.
  
  Also, I want you to stop the needless tribalism. A 'tribe' is really a cosmopolitan term. Naa Gbangwaa himself was not known as a Mamprusi

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• True Ghanaian 9 months ago

  And I want to urge you to do more research on how a 'tribe' is formed. A tribe has never been a homogeneous group of people through and through.
  
  It's a term that can be misleading. For instance, if you go and look into so ...
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  And I want to urge you to do more research on how a 'tribe' is formed. A tribe has never been a homogeneous group of people through and through.
  
  It's a term that can be misleading. For instance, if you go and look into some of those you call pure Mamprusis, their ancestors didn't come from the same stock of people.

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• Philip 9 months ago

  @True Ghanaian. A simple question begging for a simple answer and you are writing thesis. Kumah commented with a claim that Bawku Mamprusis are not pure Mamprusis and I proved to him that they are.. I also said even if there ...
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  @True Ghanaian. A simple question begging for a simple answer and you are writing thesis. Kumah commented with a claim that Bawku Mamprusis are not pure Mamprusis and I proved to him that they are.. I also said even if there is identity crisis it is the Kusasis because their chief is a Yanga. No one talk about land ownership, then you jump in and instead of dealing with the subject matter you decide to write uninspiring thesis. Now let me be charitable by making my question more simpler. Don't give us the name of your chief great grand father. Limit your. answer now to the grand father, his royalty lineage and what he did at Pusiga before running to Bawku for refuge. His they say is sweet. May God grant peace to Bawku, the whole North and the entire Ghana, Amen.

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• Philip 9 months ago

  *correction. History they say is sweet

  *correction. History they say is sweet

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• Baba Y 9 months ago

  Very dumb minister with a coconut head being remote controlled by Mahama Ayariga. If not because of coconut head, this minister would have been able to reason and know that all the factors on the ground do not support a curfe ...
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  Very dumb minister with a coconut head being remote controlled by Mahama Ayariga. If not because of coconut head, this minister would have been able to reason and know that all the factors on the ground do not support a curfew.

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