After denying knowledge of flogging two persons, barely 24 hours ago, Na Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, the Overlord of the Waala Traditional Council has stated that their flogging was under his orders.
The two were allegedly involved in a sex video scandal that went viral.
He said it formed part of measures the Council including opinion leaders in the municipality instituted to fight the immoral and deviant behaviour among the youth in the area in recent times.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Wa, to personally react to the said video in circulation on social media and for him to give reasons for denying that the youth took arbitrary action in flogging the boy and the girl without his concern.
He explained that flogging was part of the regulations put in place to instill discipline in the youth, who in recent times put up some behaviour detrimental to the well-being of society.
“Beside the flogging, parents of the boy and the girl will also agree to let the two get married and stay as a couple to serve as deterrent to the youth and to live upright lives,” he said
The Wa Naa said the regulations were aimed at allowing decency, morality, and peace to prevail in the Municipality to attract investors for the teeming youth to get employed.
“The measure will also let people who come to Wa to enjoy their stay and outsiders who have their relatives will not be worried about their safety,” he said.
He said he and his elders as well as other opinion leaders would not shun their responsibilities but would ensure that Wa remained a peaceful town for all to stay.
On Tuesday, May 31, Naa Kadri Ibrahim, the spokesperson for Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, the Overlord of the Wala Traditional Council condemned the flogging on behalf of the chief.
He said the act could only drag the reputation of the palace into disrepute and gave the assurance that the perpetrators of the barbaric act would be fished out to face the full rigours of the law.
The admission of Wa Naa that he gave his blessing to the flogging contradicts his spokesperson.
Source: GNA
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No, no, the Wa-naa is being re-active instead of being pro-active. Can the spokesperson for the Wa- naa issue a press statement without his consent? The Wa-naa is subjecting his palace to public ridicule. Can one pick lovebirds, bypass his house and March them to the Wa-naa's palace, tie the lovebirds to a pole in front of the palace and flog them in broad daylight? As a paramount chief you need to take control. We were all in Ghana here when the overlord of Dagbon ordered the district police commander out of Yendi in a matter of hours for disobeying his orders. The IGP upon all this dispatched a high powered police delegation to Yendi to plead with the Ya-naa for the disrespect shown him by the police commander. It's like so called human rights activists are condemning those who flogged the lovebirds forgetting that the criminal offences act and the cyber crime act all frowns on the publication of nude pictures and videos, what are they saying about that one too. These are the very people who sit on TV to talk about moral decay in our society. Any law does not take into consideration the cultural practices of the people is bogus. The Wa-naa should behave like an overlord. I like the people of Tamale and for that matter Dagbon because they don't tolerate ***barred word***. When you live in a country where the people have no confidence in the police and the courts, they will definitely take the law into their own hands. Go out there and interview ordinary citizens on their level of confidence in the police and the courts, it's near Zero (0). Some was recently fined GHC 5,000.00 for selling dogs without a license, another person is keeping wild animals ( Leopards) in a residential area and it's normal because he has money, same country.
Help me understand the statement ''''''......the two get married and stay as a couple to serve as deterrent to the youth''''''' hmmmm