Arrest perpetrators of recent murders in the North

The Upper East Police Command has been urged to speed up its efforts in arresting the perpetrators of the recent ritual murders in the Bolgatanga Municipality.

Members of the Peace Advocates and Voluntary Organizers' Association (PAVOA), a local based NGO which is into advocacy against ethnicity, political intolerance, chieftaincy and land disputes made the call on Wednesday at Sumbrungu in the Bolgatanga Municipality when they celebrated with the aged and underprivileged in society to mark their eleventh year anniversary.

Within the first two weeks of August, two male persons were murdered in the Municipality and their heads decapitated.

Ms Mercy Apa-alisongo, Director of PAVOA in charge of the Underprivileged who made the call, said the Region had never experienced such heinous crimes.

She indicated that such murder cases were a major setback to the development of the Region and the Organization’s relentless efforts at promoting peace and unity in the area.

“We will therefore appeal to the Ghana Police Service not to relent in its efforts to bring those evil characters behind these murders out for prosecution”.

Whilst further urging on the police to demonstrate their preparedness to protect the lives of people by setting up barriers at all trouble spots in the municipality and its environs and constantly keep surveillance, the NGO also entreated the residents to support the police by providing them with the relevant information to take the perpetrators out of the area.

The occasion was also used to honour deserving people in the community who contributed positively in the area of Conflict Detection and Peace Maintenance, Tree Planting, Good Sanitation Practices, Functional Literacy and Reading Competition, Farming and Animal Rearing among others.

The Organisation presented items including roofing materials, Cement, Bicycles, Wax print, sewing machines, cooking utensils, radio and television, agriculture implements and smocks to the award winners.

The Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Edward Ayagle, who commended the award winners for contributing to the development of the area, also lauded the NGO for instituting such a programme.

He assured the community that the Assembly would support them in the area of education, particularly in the construction of basic school structures and the provision of a police station for the area.