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A Ghanaian Security & Intelligence expert based in South Africa, Mr. Adolf Affum, says finding those behind the gruesome murder of Ya Na Andani Yakubu II may not be as difficult as is being made out to be if only those whose duty it is to find the killers would look at some of the evidence available to them. Explaining what he means by available evidence, Mr. Affum said Yidana Sugri and Jinafo, the two men allegedly caught with some parts of the body of the late Ya Na soon after he was murdered can lead the Attorney-General and the BNI to the killers and their paymasters if they would be re-arrested and the right charges slapped against them. �Proper interrogation of these two men as well as proper investigations would lead the authorities to both those who killed the Ya Na as well as their pay masters� he said. Mr. Adolf Affum said if the Mills Administration does not move very quickly to arrest the two, they may flee the country just as Private Seth Goka, one of the three men alleged to have murdered Alhaji Issa Mobilla has done. �I am sure that our security boys are working hard to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book but I can�t see how they�ll get far without the re-arrest Yidana Sugri and Jinafo,� he said. Last Sunnday, President Atta-Mills, at a durbar of the Chiefs andpeople of the Northern Region in Tamale promised that government would bring the murderers of Ya Na Yakubu Andani II, Chief of Dagbon, who was murdered on March 25, 2002 during a clash with the rival Abudu faction to book. The circumstances which led to the murder of the Chief has seen many discerning people point accusing fingers at the NPP which was the governing party at the time. At the height of the fierce clash between the Andani and Abudu gates, while the BBC was reporting about the clash, the then Minister for the Interior, Malik Yakubu Alhassan told newsmen Dagbon was calm. Soon after a caller from Yendi called and revealed on air that the clash was on, all phone lines from Accra to Yendi got disconnected. In spite of the fact that a military barracks was not far away from the Gbewa Palace, soldiers did not move in to avert the murder of the Chief with the excuse that the battery of the only armored vehicle available was not in working condition. All these provided the plot for the perfect murder of the Ya Na Yakubu Andani II and about forty of his elders. The NPP government set up the Wuaku Commission to probe the murder. Yidana Sugri and Jinafo, who were caught dancing with some of the body parts of the late Ya Na, instead of being charged with illegal possession of body parts were ridiculously charged with murder, an act many see as a deliberately ploy by Nana Akufo-Addo, the A-G to let the two off the hook.