[ 2015-12-01 ]

Bunkpurugu clashes: MP begs security forces to be fair, lenient
Member of Parliament for conflict-prone
Bunkpurugu-Yunyo in the Northern Region, Solomon
Namlitt Boar, has appealed to security forces
keeping peace in the area to be fair in the
maintenance of law and order.

His appeal follows intensified security presence
after two men were killed during curfew hours on
Sunday.

Police and military forces say they have stepped
up security in the area to avoid a reprisal
attacks.

Joy News is also learning that Interior Ministry,
Mark Woyongo, may extend the existing 6am to 6pm
curfew in the area, however, the MP for the
area.

Solomon Namliit says although the feuding factions
are reluctant to agree to a truce, security forces
should be lenient with residents.

He said police “must be very professional in
whatever they are doing.”

“I have confidence in the police,” he adds.

He has further warned that the situation could
result in the vacation of the town by teachers and
other public servants if the attacks persist and
urged the feuding factions smoke the peace pipe.

The recurrent conflicts in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyo
district has been blamed on a long-standing land
and chieftaincy dispute between the Bimobas and
Konkonbas.

A similar conflict erupted between the two ethnic
groups in September last year and resulted in the
death of about six people and the destruction of
houses.

Houses were set ablaze in the recent clashes,
causing many women and children to flee the town.

Similar clashes between the two groups were
recorded in 1985, 1986 and 1989 during which a
number of casualties were recorded and many people
were displaced.

Source - MyjoyOnline

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