[ 2012-07-19 ]

FLASHBACK: Hohoe township during the violent clashes

Gbevlo-Lartey ordered 'shoot-to-kill' during Hohoe clashes - Gbi State
The Gbi Traditional Council has accused the
National Security coordinator, Lt. Col. Gbevlo
Lartey of using "coercive strategies like the
imposition of curfew, the deployment and ordering
of soldiers to shoot on sight the citizens of Gbi"
during the recent clashes between the Zongo
community and supporters of the paramount chief in
Hohoe.

In a statement issued by the Gbi Traditional
Council and signed by Togbe Worde IV, Divisional
Chief of Gbi Kpeme, the council alleged that the
National Security Coordinator also publicly stated
and has hitherto refused to either recognize or
have anything to do with the committee set up by
the Gbi State to spear head the process towards a
peaceful resolution of the current impasse in the
Hohoe community.

According to the Gbi State, the conduct of the
National Security Coordinator is a deliberate
attempt to intimidate the indigenes of Hohoe even
though they were the most affected in the recent
clashes.

It will be recalled that on 11th June, 2012,
members of the Zongo community clashed with
indigenes of Hohoe after the body their local
Chief Imam was exhumed and dumped at the road side
by some unknown people.

Members of the Zongo community went on rampage
and vandalized several properties in the Hohoe
Township including the official residence of
Togbega Gabusu VI, the palace of the Gbi
Traditional Council and other properties of the
Gbi State. Two people lost their lives in the
clashes.

A curfew was imposed on the township with several
leaders appealing to the feuding factions to
resolve their differences and live in peace, but
according to the Gbi state, Lt. Col..
Gbevlo-Lartey and other security agencies instead
of ensuring peace are rather protecting the Zongo
community.

“We the people of Gbi cannot sit down and watch
the MUSEC and the security apparatus deployed to
protect the Zongo community as if we the people of
Gbi are secondary citizens of the Republic of
Ghana”.

They added that “in the current situation, we the
people of Gbi are the disadvantaged, not the Zongo
community that carried out the riot. Our
Paramountcy has been attacked, our innocent
children have been killed and/or maimed, and
properties vandalized”.

The strongly worded statement was concluded with
the assurance that “we, the people of Gbi, will
give our total support to the Government in our
quest for a lasting peace so long as the mediators
and emissaries do not have any hidden agenda
and/or undermine our Stool, Chiefs, Customs and
Traditions”.

Source - RadioXYZonline.

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