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Chief appeals to
politicians to stop supplying youth with weapons
Tamale, Nov. 8, GNA - The Dakpema, Na Alhassan
Dawuni, Chief of Tamale, has appealed to politicians and their
cronies in the south, who supply weapons of destruction to
northern youth, to stop the practice for the development of the
country.
He said if politicians stopped their selfish and negative
attitude towards their perceived political opponents and
contribute their quota to ensure the development of the country,
conflicts would be uprooted from the country.
The Dakpema, Na Dawuni, made the appeal when Mr. Benard Mornah,
General Secretary of the People's National Convention (PNC), led
a delegation of party members, to pay a courtesy call on him on
Saturday.
The call was to brief the Chief about the activities of the PNC
in the Region, and to assure the people of Tamale that members
of the PNC were peace loving, which the rest of the political
parties should emulate to ensure the development of the Region.
Na Dawuni said, "In my ten months stay in this palace as a
chief, I have observed that politicians living in Accra and
other cities in the south are supplying the Northern Youth who
are jobless with weapons of destruction.
"Many of these youth have voluntarily surrendered a number of
weapons to me and confessed that they received them from
politicians from Accra, which I have handed over to the Northern
Regional Police command", he said.
Na Dawuni said the youth who had refused to surrender the
weapons to the police following an announcement by the Northern
Regional Security Committee to surrender them for a price of GH¢300,
but sent them to the palace demonstrate that the chieftaincy
institutions were still relevant in the country's governance
system.
"It would do the country good if you supply the youth with tools
to help them generate income, instead of purchasing weapons for
them to kill their own brothers. You may supply weapons for
destruction to achieve your aim on earth, but don't forget that
posterity would judge you individually," he said.
He said the politicians had managed to paint a gloomy picture of
the entire northern sector, which was scaring investors, and
appealed to the business community that, the north especially
Northern Region was safe for business and chiefs would help
protect their investments.
He appealed to all peace loving Ghanaians, NGOs and corporate
bodies to contribute to the Dakpema Education Fund (DEF), which
aims at educating the youth to remain disciplined, so that those
who have been supplying weapons would not succeed again.
He warned that the palace would be compelled to expose those
supplying weapons, if they did not desist from the practice, to
ensure that Dagbon and the rest of the North was weapon-free, so
that the people would continue to coexist.
Mr. Bernard Mornah, General Secretary of the PNC commended Na
Dawuni for the initiative to retrieve weapons from the youth and
gave the assurance that, a PNC-led government when given the
mandate would empower chiefs with the necessary mobility tools
to enable them spread peace messages.
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