Northern Ghana -The december Power Keg

In march 2002, there was the Yendi massacre. If you remember, I think sometime before the 2004 election, there was an exercise in which a certain young man called Red or something fired shots at a police. He was arrested by the police, he was detained by the police and the Deputy Regional Minister at the time went to the police and took this boy out of custody. The boy was never prosecuted.

There was another incident …where a 14-year-old boy was killed by one baba nkabo. Then came the brutal murder of issa mobilla.

In all these cases, nobody is ever prosecuted

You have several firing incidents in Tamale and the people do it and get away with it so what is causing it is a culture of impunity because the police are not executing their duty and why they are not executing their duty they must tell us whether somebody is preventing them from doing so.

In any situation where the security services refuse, fail or decide not to act in a fair and just manner, qaos is the result.

I dare say that the security services in tamale know the trouble causers and causes except that they dont act. They are under political instructions.

Lets be careful, these snippets of violence can spill over and engulf the country in december if we are not careful.

Lets be realistic here please, how can anyone go near the tamale police hqtrs where npp is having a rally and fire gunshots? There is some missing link.

I lived for 17yrs in tamale and my heart goes out to the people. They dont realise that they are beign used to butter the politician's bread..