Finding Ya Na's killers is not enough-Pratt
Audrey Micah, Ghanadot

Accra, Feb 22, Ghanadot - The Managing editor for the Insight Newspaper, Mr Kwesi Pratt Jr. has stated that President Mills initiative to probe into finding the killers of Ya Na Yakubu Andani II and his followers, and arresting them would not solve the problem but finding the causes of the murder as well as retrieving ammunitions from civilian was the way to go.

Mr. Pratt said he was not against the President’s decision to arrest the killers, but he thought arresting and prosecuting the killers without finding the actual reason why they decided to kill the Ya Na would not address the issue as the problem would still remain.

The Managing editor of the Insight added that if the President really wanted to bring justice to the conflicts in the Northern Region, then effort should not be based on partisan politics.

He noted that, there were situations where people who were supposed to be punished for going contrary to the law were freed by those who were mandated to do so due to their political affiliation and that he said had left the laws of the country weak.

President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday broached the very rancorous issue of the Dagbon killings of Ya Na Yakubu Andani II and forty of his elders, and the torture-to-death of politician Issa Mobila.

According to President Mills, his administration would bring to closure, the lingering issue of justice in the case of the death of Ya Na and his followers, Issa Mobila and other outstanding cases.

Ghanadot