Police in the Upper East region have intensified patrols in Bolgatanga following a renewed chieftaincy clash between two feuding factions in a chieftaincy dispute that left one person dead and several others injured.
According to the police, the heavy patrol team made up of military and police personnel will be on the grounds until further notice.
Briefing the media on the incident, Monday, Upper East regional police commander DCOP Simon Afeku said the renewed chieftaincy clash erupted Sunday afternoon at a funeral house in Bukere where supporters of the two opposing factions met.
According to him, persons involved in yesterday’s clash were armed with bottles, stones and other offensive weapons.
“One unregistered Yamaha motor bike belonging to one of the victims currently at the hospital and a Toyota RAV 4 with registration number GN 6786- 12 have been vandalized in the process. Again at the scene we recovered 19 live AA cartridges, one double edged sword in a scabbard, a smock all concealed in a black polythene bag and these were believed to be abandoned by one of the factions in the fight.”
DCOP Afeku added that the fight continued outside the funeral grounds where an OPEL taxi cab with some passengers on board knocked down of the victims after which he was shot with a weapon suspected to be an AK 47 riffle and is currently on admission at the Bolgatanga hospital with others.
He disclosed that “Nine persons were taken to the hospital by the police who had sustained various degrees of wounds of which some were from gunshots and unfortunately one person was pronounced dead this morning and remaining eight who are responding to treatment at the hospital.”
He further assured of an investigation to bring perpetrators to book and called on the feuding factions to desist from acts that will jeopardize the relative peace the municipality is enjoying.
By: Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen | A1RADIOONLINE.com | GHANA
