Two persons have reportedly been shot dead on Monday in Bole, a town in Northern Ghana in a renewed ethnic related clashes.
Local media Star FM reports that tensions have been seething in the town for months after a court ruling on a prolonged chieftaincy dispute.
Two royal families in the town called Mandari have failed to resolve their differences on who is the legitimate occupant of a traditional monarch role.
Mandari is said to be an important community within the Traditional area where chiefs automatically ascend to the Bole skin upon vacancy.
The royals from the Safope gate, both laid claim to the Mandari skin. This led to the Monday clashes resulting in the killing of two persons with several houses incinerated and schools closed down.
The local leader for the area Veronica Alele has fled the town, according to local media.
“I’m on my way to Tamale. I left the place early and cannot tell what happened at my back even though I know about the chieftaincy issue,” she is quoted by Starr FM as saying.
A security Analyst Adam Bonah says the clash is an indication of failure on the part of the country’s security apparatus.
He said “I have called the national security into questions severally. We need the national security to be out there performing the role that the CIA and KGBs are performing. Today we don’t see them to do that.”
Curfew has been imposed on the community in order to restore order to the place and prevent further clashes.
Source: Africafeeds.com
