2 Suspects Arrested Over Bimbilla Conflict

Northern Regional Police Commander, DCOP Ken Yeboah, Group Captain Frank Hanson and Brigadier General Bright Stanley Alloh in Bimbilla

Sulemana Mohammed Sheriff, 25, trader and Yakubu Zuberu, 23, tractor operator, have been arrested by the Police in connection with renewed clashes at Bimbilla in the Nanumba District of the Northern Region.

According to reports, some of the victims on admission at the Bimbilla Hospital identified the suspects as their assailants.

The Northern Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, who confirmed the arrest to DAILY GUIDE, said the suspects have been transferred from the Nanumba District to Tamale.

According to ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, they would be arraigned before court in Tamale after investigations.

The Tamale District Magistrate Court 2, presided over by Antony Aduku-Aidoo, granted bail to 15 suspects arrested by the police in connection with the renewed clashes in the Nanumba District of the Northern Region.

The court granted each accused person bail in the sum of GH₵1,000, with one surety, to reappear on February 27, 2017.

The accused persons were charged with breach of curfew. They all pleaded not guilty.

Twenty-one persons were arrested by the police in connection with the clashes in Bimbilla.

After the police screening, six persons, including four minors, were released.

Some family members of the accused persons, who spoke to DAILY GUIDE, expressed their happiness with the decision of the court to grant them bail.

“We are happy that they were granted bail and will come home soon, because some of them are family men and need to satisfy the needs of their families.”

The death toll in the renewed chieftaincy clashes in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region has reached 11.

The police found nine bodies in addition to the previous two, increasing the number to 11, with some others sustaining various degrees of injury and several houses set ablaze.

The dead include nine women, a four-year-old child and 87-year-old woman.

The deceased persons have been buried in the area by their families.

The violence started when Naa Andani Dasana, the regent of Bimbilla Traditional Area, wanted to enskin a sub-chief called Kanbong Naa (chief warrior) in the area against the advice of the City Council and the police.