Mamprusis And The Bimobas Smoked Peace Pipe

The Mamprusis and the Bimobas have finally smoked the peace path and promised to live in peace again at Yunyoo a farming community in the Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District. The conflict which broke-up in 2008 led to many lives lost and several properties destroyed.

As the saying goes that, “thousand miles of a journey begins with a step”, the peace process that began immediately after the conflict involving the chiefs and opinion leaders of the two factions and the District Security Council was climax at Yunyoo on 28^th July, 2015 with “Blood Burial” ceremony.

The ceremony which was supposed to symbolically purify the once contaminated land of Yunyoo during the conflict witnessed the presence of the District Chief Executive of Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District, Hon. Sampoa Laar Timothy, who represented the Northern Regional Minister, Hon. Joseph B. Naabu, representatives of Nayiri, the Paramount Chief of Yunyoo Traditional Area, Nakpanduri chief who chaired the occupation, the chief of Naagu and all the sub-chiefs within Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District, the Clerk, Security Forces and all peace lovers.

The Paramount Chief of Yunyoo Traditional Area, Naa Yamyia Tooka ∏congratulated the District Chief Executive for the Area on his firm commitment towards ensuring peace in the district especially the Yunyoo and Naagu communities which until 2008 unfortunate accident were living as brothers and sisters. He used the occupation to urge all the people in the district to support the Chief Executive in his efforts to bringing peace and Development in the area. He added that, what happened in 2008 was unfortunate and should not be repeated anywhere in the district.

The Naagu chief added his voice to the Yunyoorana’s remarks that, it became necessary for the blood burial ceremony at Yunyoo considering the tied relationship still existed between the two communities aside the conflict in eight years ago.

Hon. Timothy Sampoa Laar the District Chief Executive for Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District on behave of the Northern Regional Minister thanked all those who contributed to bringing peace to Yunyoo and Naagu but explained that, Ghana was currently having six curfew imposed towns and out of the number, four were for only Northern region which Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo burden itself with two from the four northern regional share. This he said was a difficult task for development plans of the district and also, scares development partners from coming into the diistrict. He called on all the chiefs and opinion leaders in the district to support the peace agenda by the DISEC and help bring quality education to the area instead of spending unnecessarily on sophisticated weapons.

The Member of Parliament for the area, Hon. Joseph B. Naabu expressing his joy for the final peace process in Yunyoo Constituency stated that, he has gotten a good message for his colleague members of parliament and the President of Ghana who have the development of the area at heart to assist him and the district chief executive to develop the area.

Chairman of the occasion, Naa David Kansuk Chief of Nakpanduri who recently was recognized and awarded by the Northern Regional Security Council on Ghana Citizen Day for his efforts to helping bring peace between konkombas and Bimobas at Kpemali near Nakpanduri took the occasion to thank Yunyoorana for sealing the peace process between Yunyoo and Naagu. He however, called on all the chiefs to join hands and help delete Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo District name from the volatile districts in Ghana.

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