Fears grip Nkrankwanta and Bono as Gunshot left one dead and properties burnt

In the history of Ghana, this year’s voters register has caused a lot of hooliganism and fears grip Nkrankwanta and Bono as gunshot left one dead and properties burnt. It surely will not stop here as fears grip citizens of one of the most peaceful democratic nations in the world.

On Saturday 8 August,2020, Supporters of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their biggest rivals National Democratic Congress (NDC) clashed in the Bono regional community over the weekend causing the death of one person and the burning of properties.

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Defending the reports, The Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa West, Ali Maiga Halidu whose driver was been mentioned as one of the people involved in the fracas denied reports that his driver was among the persons who fired gunshots during the violence at Nkrankwanta in the Bono Region.

A motorbike and a car got burnt during the action with two others injured. And Three persons arrested as a result.

Mr Ali Maiga in a report says, that no gunshot was fired by a civilian at the scene.

Mr Halidu continued “The only weapon the opposition party NDC and NPP guys had was just a catapult. None of them had a gun on them to shoot. All the gunshots that happened on Saturday were fired by the security. I have repeated this in all my meetings with the security agencies and now they are aware. In fact, my boys have identified the soldiers who did that. We’ve identified the police officers who shot at the car so it’s not true. When we were at the morgue, any security person from the police command or BNI who came to the morgue to see the body of our late brother said this was done by either a policeman or military man.”

The MP, who has been accused of being a key catalyst in the incident, claimed to have only alerted his agents about a group of Ivorian nationals who were on their way towards the Electoral Commission (EC) offices to register for the Voters ID card.

“We use motorbikes to patrol the town to find out if there could be a place where they will camp. So that We alert the immigration people, they’ll go there, arrest them, and send them back to Cote d’Ivoire. This is what they’ve been doing for the entire period. Nothing of this sort has happened. There were no gunshots. The worst scenario was when a guy on Thursday came to butcher one of our men. So when our guys were chased into the bush, the NDC guys came out of the bush, burnt the car and motorbike, and walked to our party office to vandalize the place,” he insisted.

The Police reports, however, says there is relative calm in Nkrankwanta as three persons have been picked up to assist in investigations.

According to the Bono Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Chief Inspector Augustine Kingsley Oppong, “I can tell you that the security situation is relatively calm. And I want to paint this mental picture to everybody that the people there are not in any way fighting each other. The NPP and NDC are those people who are engaging in that.

So the first day the community members heard that the 39-year-old Kofi Labatu is dead, there was a little fear in the people. But I can tell you that everything is calm and people are moving about freely.”