Tuesday’s bloody clashes between Konkombas and Dagombas at the Agbogbloshie Yam Market is “very shameful”, Daniel Bugri Naabu, Northern Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said.
An accusation of theft by one side against the other sparked mayhem leading to the death of two people in bloody clashes. Several others also sustained machete wounds.
Mr Naabu, a major opinion leader of northern extraction has appealed to his kinsmen to channel their anger against poverty rather than hacking each other away.
“It is already bad but I will appeal to all of them to exercise patience. … Please we shouldn’t fight among ourselves. Our enemy is poverty: No money to eat, no food to eat, we should start thinking about that than ways to resort to killing each other.
“I am appealing to them to put a stop to it. If anything at all, we have elders, we have politicians, complain to someone. Someone will take it up and resolve it instead of taking dangerous weapons like iron to kill each other,” Mr Naabu told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 12 April.
Meanwhile, Odododiodioo MP Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has attributed the recurrent clashes at the Yam Market to deprivation among the people involved.
According to him, most of the people who resort to violence in the area feel neglected by the middle class and harbour resentments which they give vent to through clashes.
He has, therefore, asked that the socio-economic problems of the people be addressed in order to effectively deal with the perennial clashes between the two ethnic groups.
Speaking on the matter in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom, on Accra100.5FM on Wednesday, 12 April, Mr Vanderpuye said: “The people living at the area are engaged in menial jobs, mostly involving hard labour. There are some of them who believe that they have been neglected by the ruling class and the middle class in Ghanaian society and so they harbour resentment towards them.”
“For this reason, the slightest provocation leads to something else, and, so, I think we have to look at the socio-economic situation at the place and seek to reduce poverty and the hardships they face.
“Again, politicians from all the political parties who come from the North, where the Dagombas and the Konkombas come from, should come together and go to the area and speak to them and advise them that violence is not the solution to their problems.”
Source: Classfmonline
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Gbee Nabuu O Nabuu Agbo.
It is you Mr. Gbee Naabu who is a big shame to the northners after you lied about your brother JDM, now you are in power solve the problems
Is really a shame for these cousins to always be on each others throat. Is time that's two trbes learn from reach history that they are two sides of the same coin. All dagomba paramoncies have blood lineages to kokombas. Yes there was a mistake in 1994 but never again should these things happen again..Koya and Daya must educate our young people ofthe historical lineage between the kokombas and dagombas.
lnfact am a native of the area I witness every thing that happened and am saying on a strong note that our big men are behind such act Even the security men on ground were present when aguy fire his colleague down and police man run away
Vigilante Groups that are named and known are less dangerous than the unnamed vigilante groups that are operating underground as if they not not exist. The two major political parties all have Vigilante Groups. Some are named and and some are operating without names. When people were armed to molest individuals, are we now being told that they have been neglected? Yes they have been neglected because their paymasters are not doling out the cash to them so at the least provocation they flare up. PLEASE LET THE PEOPLE GO for PEACE to prevail. The land is being desecrated.
Nii Lantey, are you saying they have been neglected? What did NDC do with all the funds channeled to the North to alleviate poverty? You squandered the money. How can you now have the guts to say "There are some of them who believe that they have been neglected by the ruling class and the middle class in Ghanaian society and so they harbour resentment towards them.” what did you do when you had the chance? Your party rather have armed them and use them for all the wrong reason and give their women basins to carry other people's load. You should acknowledge how NDC has let the people of the north down with a president from there. You should have said we NDC have let them down and we have to find a way putting things right. At least this time you did not blame NPP.
This nii lante or whatever they call him was a deputy minister for local government, what did you do for the people and you are now calling on the middle class to assist them. Am told you are the m p for that area, so equally go and talk to them,all you did at local government was to buy plastic waste containers for communities that had no use for them. Go to the rural assemblies and you will see the containers waisting, meanwhile 10 percent has exchanged hands
.... these northerners should be told that they cannot continue to desecrate Ga people lands. They should go back to Dagonmba Dagbon and Yendi and Kokomba and fight there and leave Accra and Ga people alone