The particular Mamprusi Youth Association offers expressed disgust at the posturing of the Upper East Local Minister in the wake associated with unrest at Bawku. In recent years, sporadic gunshots in Bawku Central has led to the particular placement of a curfew over the Municipality and its environs plus a ban on the wearing associated with smock which security capos say is used by bad guys to hide weapons. Reacting towards the recent developments and following interviews by the Upper Eastern Regional Minister Stephen Yakubu, the Mamprusi Youth Organization have expressed worry more than some claims made by your pet about the cause of the unrest in Bawku. “We possess noticed with serious issue how the Upper East Local Minister who is also the particular Chairman of the Regional Safety Council in a split second flipped himself into a propaganda admin for the Kusasis whilst allowing an interview on Citi FM’s Eye Witness News system on November 24, 2021, ” a statement from your Association said. Adding that will “The minister who is the Kusasi by tribe unfortunately he supposed to be impartial in his function made very grave claims that are factually inaccurate and also have the tendency to get worse the security situation in Bawku. He attributed the cause of the particular recent insecurity in Bawku to the performance of a memorial by the Overlord of Mamprugu the Nayiri for their son the 14th Bawku Naaba Naa Adam Zangbeo Tampuri. We find this their attempt to be disingenuous targeted at misleading the Ghanaian community from knowing the real risks to the peace and protection of Bawku”. Apart from the Minister’s bias, the Association furthermore fingers one Mohammed Nurudeen, Prof Abango and Haruna Sumaila Abugri as the individuals fueling the recent stress in the Bawku Municipality and its particular environs. “Furthermore, we desire to state categorically that Bawku was enjoying relative peacefulness until a provocative job interview granted to one Prof Agbango by one Mohammed Nurudeen who is a reporter to get Joy News in the Ashanti Region. This Mohammed Nurudeen is a Kusasi by group and in fact a self-proclaimed youth leader for the Kusasis. It is a shame that he put his professional ethics aside and threaded on a way to incite his Kusasis in order to violence through his job interview with Prof Agbango. Associated with this issue is another attempt with a Kusasi by the name Haruna Sumaila Abugri who functions for the Herald Newspaper. This individual, as is characteristic of battle mongering also threw their professional ethics away simply by writing a very biased plus disingenuous story published over the Herald Newspaper on 24th November, 2021. He attempted to disingenuously fight the cause of their Kusasi compatriots by slander and false reportage that ought to be an issue of severe concern to his companies, ” the statement stated. Read Their Full Declaration Here A PRESS MEETING BY BAWKU MAMPRUSI YOUNGSTERS ASSOCIATION ON RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN BAWKU AND REFINED ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE THE NAME OF BAWKU IN THE CHIEFTAINCY INSTRUMENT, 2020 (L. I. 2409) ALONG WITH OTHER MATTERSThe Regent of Bawku, Alhaji Ibrahim Adam Zangbeo, and his elders, ladies and men of the Press, invited visitors, sons and daughters associated with Bawku, descendants of Naa Gbewaa, fellow Ghanaians. We all thank you very much for praising our invitation to this occasion. On behalf of the entire Mamprusi Youngsters in Bawku, we desired you to this historic citadel of peace, Naa Zangbeo Palace. This press meeting is held by the Bawku Mamprusi Association to address specific important issues that are primary to the historical heritage associated with Bawku as well as to the serenity and security of the city. We as true descendants of the founders of Bawku are always mindful of the work and sacrifices our forefathers have gone through to establish this particular town and thus, we are often at the forefront in promoting peacefulness and development. It is regarding this that we have chosen to address these types of concerns through this lawful and non-violent means. Not just that, we have chosen a open public forum to ensure utmost openness in our quest to get problems resolved. Ladies and gentlemen, we now have noticed with serious problem how the Upper East Local Minister who is also the particular Chairman of the Regional Protection Council in a split second switched himself into a propaganda admin for the Kusasis whilst allowing an interview on Citi FM’s Eye Witness News plan on November 24, 2021. The minister who is the Kusasi by tribe unfortunately he supposed to be impartial in his function made very grave claims that are factually inaccurate and also have the tendency to aggravate the security situation in Bawku. He attributed the cause of the particular recent insecurity in Bawku to the performance of a memorial by the Overlord of Mamprugu the Nayiri for their son the 14th Bawku Naaba Naa Adam Zangbeo Tampuri. We find this their attempt to be disingenuous targeted at misleading the Ghanaian community from knowing the real risks to the peace and protection of Bawku. Without sampling much into this diversionary tactic spearheaded by the Local Minister Stephen Yakubu, we are going to like to state for the prevention of any doubt that will, funeral performance for a departed person is a right the fact that deceased has upon his/her family and loved ones. And unlike the Minister’s misleading responses made in his capacity since the propaganda secretary for their tribesmen instead of his part as Regional Minister, there is certainly currently absolutely NO law within Ghana that bans individuals from performing the funeral service of loved ones specifically the particular funeral of Naa Adam Zangbeo who died since the legal and gazetted Key of the Bawku Traditional Authorities. The propagandist attempt simply by Stephen Yakubu to state the funeral was performed more than 41 years ago in the Islamic way truly exposes their biased stance as considerably the Bawku crisis is involved. One critical evidence that will shows that the Regional Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) was biased or not correctly briefed is his fake assertion that there was a PNDC law in 1975 preventing the performance of the memorial of Naa Adam Zangbeo. The simple question to your pet on this falsehood is that, just how can there be a law banning the performance of a funeral service for someone who was FULL OF LIFE since Naa Adam Zangbeo was alive then? In addition, was the PNDC in Authorities in 1975 to have the requirement of promulgating a legislation banning the performance of the funeral? The Regional Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) who is a Kusasi ought to clearly get it that it will not lie in his authority to teach Mamprusis on how funerals are usually done in the Mamprusi custom. He and his cohorts ought to know that the Nayiri has the directly to celebrate the life of their son Naa Adam Zangbeo by performing a right for funeral for him regardless of how long the event has postponed and there is absolutely NO soul that may take this right from the Nayiri and family of Naa Tampuri Adam Zangbeo. Furthermore, we are going to like to state that, it does NOT lay in the hands of the Local Minister to tell us who will be the rightful owner from the Bawku skin. The Bawku skin has a clear family tree owned by Mamprusis that can be in existence for over 200 many years long before Abugrago Azoka great family came to Bawku through Duutinga through Pusiga within the 1940s. This is an established historic fact that no one can deny but it will surely be made very clear in the following sections of this Press Meeting. Therefore , so long as the funeral service of Naa Adam Zangbeo who died as the lawfully gazetted Chief of Bawku still remains unperformed, the answer just as espoused by Umaru Sanda of Citi FM in a question to the Local Minister is to resolve this particular impasse which is the root reason for the Bawku crisis. All of us therefore call on Government ahead to terms with this truth by facilitating the functionality of the funeral of Naa Adam Zangbeo who offered his people and nation faithfully as the 14th Bawku Naaba and once the Vice President of the Upper Eastern Regional House of Chiefs. Ladies and gentlemen, with this history, we will proceed to narrate for you with real evidence the particular recent activities that are the particular immediate and real dangers to peace in Bawku that have resulted in the improved tension in Bawku. Upon or about 25th Oct, 2021 following the unprovoked tried distortion of the history of Bawku by one Prof. Agbango, our attention was attracted to a provocative press release with a so-called Concerned Association associated with Kusasi Youth. In their declaration, they claimed the name of the Bawku Traditional Council had been converted to Kusaug under a Legislative Device (L. I). This was the very first time in over a decade the Kusasis had made mention of the a legal instrument in support of their particular claims ever since they plotted a grand scheme to change the Bawku. Upon further analysis, we discovered that certain individuals for whatever reason had in a clandestine move subtly inserted the term ‘kusaug’ in the Chieftaincy Device, 2020 (L. I 2409) in an attempt to change the name associated with Bawku. We further discovered a purported letter emanating from an alien ‘Kusaug’ traditional council claiming in order to order various Government companies to refer to the Bawku Traditional Council in formal correspondence as the alien “Kasaug” Traditional Council and one Aninchema Abugrago Azoka as Zugraana. In this regard, we wish to associated with following observations and to ask the attention of peace-loving Ghanaians to these unprovoked attacks for the beautiful heritage, peace plus security of Bawku and its particular surrounding areas. But before we all delve further into exactly how this clandestine insertion associated with ‘Kusaug’ is very unfortunate plus a threat to the cultural historical past and peace of Bawku, the question that readily occurs to you is why this attempt simply by some Self-proclaimed Kusasis in order to erase the name Bawku that can be in existence since the inception from the town? The answer is simple plus obvious! They have realized that providing the name of the town and conventional council remains Bawku, this is a fatal blow to their discredited and fake claim to be the real owners of the city. INCITING ROLE OF PROF AGBANGO, MOHAMMED NURUDEEN ASSOCIATED WITH JOY NEWS AND HARUNA SUMAILA ABUGRI TO THE LATEST INCREASED TENSION IN BAWKUFurthermore, we wish to state flatly that Bawku was taking pleasure in relative peace until the provocative interview granted to 1 Prof Agbango by 1 Mohammed Nurudeen who is the reporter for Joy Information in the Ashanti Region. This particular Mohammed Nurudeen is a Kusasi by tribe and in truth a self-proclaimed youth head for the Kusasis. It is a pity that he threw his expert ethics away and threaded on a path to incite their Kusasis to violence via his interview with Prof Agbango. Related to this issue can be another attempt by a Kusasi from the name Haruna Sumaila Abugri who works for the Herald Newspaper. He, as is feature of war mongering furthermore threw his professional integrity away by writing an extremely biased and disingenuous tale published on the Herald Paper on 24th November, 2021. He tried to disingenuously combat the cause of his Kusasi compatriots by slander and fake reportage which should be a problem of serious concern in order to his employers. Prof Agbango’s full name is George Akeya Agbango. He is the boy of a Biengu migrant known as Agbango Daanab who was residing in Zebilla. He was known as “Daanab” meant “market chief” in reference to his work as ticket collector within the Zebilla market. Daanab had not been a member of the Apotuba/Abiongo Talensi founders and ruling family of Zebilla but rather the migrant pure Kusasi through Biengu in present Burkina Faso. He therefore does not have any claim to land or epidermis in Bawku and and so must keep his mouth area shut on Bawku property and skin matters. Really, if he tried that will on Zebilla affairs he’d have been told to go back in order to Biengu and solve the particular land and skin problems there. Akeya Agbango ought to rather be telling the world how he violently plus criminally shut the desires for poor Martin Kisise through Mirigu when he as well as the deceased were both college students at the Bawku Secondary College. He knows very well he or she is the last person to talk about migrant workers in Bawku because right after his violent termination from the dreams of Martin, he Akeya Agbango had to be sent back house to his hometown associated with Biengu in Burkina Faso for the purification rites. It had been after these rights which he was able to return back to Zebilla. So how can such a individual call Mamprusi founders associated with Bawku migrants when this individual himself migrated from Burkina Faso? It is this their action and that of their boys in the media which are very provocative and true threats to the peace associated with Bawku. We wish to suggest that it is these unprofessional performs by Mohammed Nurudeen plus Haruna Sumaila Abugri which are the real threat to the peacefulness of Bawku and not the particular performance of a funeral that is the responsibility of every person in order to his deceased relative. Furthermore, we will like to say that tries to frame one Naa Tampuri by the unethical activities of Haruna Sumaila Abugri should be disregarded. Naa Tampuri is a traditionist who is therefore passionate about the preservation associated with cultural heritage and he, just like thousands of Mamprugu youth within the diaspora, see Bawku because their true historic home. Hence, attempts to erase the particular historic foundations of Bawku by Kusasis such as Prof Agbango, Mohammed Nurudeen plus Haruna Sumaila Abugri would be the real threats to the peacefulness of Bawku. It is a pity that Haruna Sumaila Abugri did not include in his biased publication that Naa Tampuri was actually only addressing threats by an older Kusasi man to the impact that they Kusasis will destroy all Mamprusis who visit villages like Garu, Pusiga, etc for market routines. We therefore call on the safety agencies to consider inviting the above mentioned 3 people for severe questioning and caution on the inciteful publications. We additional wish to request Joy Information and the Herald News Papers to sanction their workers Mohammed Nurudeen and Haruna Sumaila Abugri respectively for his or her unethical and unprofessional carry out. BRIEF HISTORY OF BAWKU PLUS PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS BY THE SELF-PROCLAIMED KUSASIS TO CHANGE THE NAME OF BAWKUIt is a settled historical idea that, Naa Gbewaa, the originator of the Mole-Dagbani Kingdom which Mamprusis are part, resided, ruled and died within Pusiga which is about thirteen km from Bawku. Until date his shrine remains in Pusiga. His descendants formed great Kingdoms towards the North, South, East plus West of Pusiga. There is absolutely no historical mention of any other Empire called ‘Kusaug’ during after Naa Gbewaa’ within the Bawku area. In fact , till time, descendants of Naa Gbewaa in faraway Burkina Faso which is an extension of the excellent Mole-Dagbani Kingdom still spend homage to the Nayiri (Overlord of Mamprugu). This along with the absence of any known historic Kingdom called ‘Kusaug’ point out the fact that the entire area through Nalerigu to the Mossi Empire in present day Burkina Faso was under the influence plus territory of the Mamprusis. Hence, it is inconceivable that any Kingdom could have existed plus survived right in the middle of the truly amazing Mamprugu Kingdom. In order to protect the trade route through Burkina Faso in the Northern to other neighboring Kingdoms towards the south, Naa Atabia who was the particular 10th Nayiri and who also by tradition was the overlord of the entire stretch through Nalerigu to Moshi property in Burkina Faso set up Bawku in the 17th Centuries with his son, Naa Ali Atabia as the first Key of the town. Indeed, all of historians agree that the title of the town Bawku is really a Mamprusi word which means the valley referring to the low-lying nature of the town when viewed from the escarpment within Nakpanduri. Ladies and gentlemen, this is actually the real reason why the alleged Kusasis have been and are still really incessant in their bid in order to erase the name Bawku. They will know the name of the city fully exposes their fake claim of ownership plus founding of the town. It had been after the establishment of the city Bawku through the sacrifice by Mamprusis to safeguard the place in terms of security that triggered it to develop quickly pertaining to settlers like the self-proclaimed Kusasis to migrate to settle. The initial Kusasis who migrated using their historical enclave of Ayuiga, Biengo and Zawga within present day Burkina Faso to stay around Bawku would never imagine fighting their Mamprusi web host or claim to be landowners not to talk of trying to replace the name of Bawku which usually predates their settlement. It really is thus understandable why the particular so-called Kusasis who were just beneficiaries of the toil plus bravery of the Mamprusis can attempt changing the name of Bawku now because; they have switched themselves into self-styled proprietors of the land. This is not the very first time this group of so-called Kusasis without lineage through their particular appendages have attempted to replace the name of Bawku. They will attempted in the year 99 to change the name of the town through Bawku to Agoltinga. This particular their attempt was spearheaded by the likes of Cletus Avoka who even though is not really a Kusasi and nor from Bawku but do so because he needed mementos from them politically. This try was fiercely resisted from the Mamprusi Youth and it has been shelved until now that it continues to be clandestinely incorporated into the LI 2409. OBSERVATIONS AND NEEDS TO THE NATIONAL HOUSE ASSOCIATED WITH CHIEFS AND GOVERNMENTLadies plus gentlemen, we the Mamprusi Youth as part of our responsibilities are bringing this issue to the attention of the Nationwide House of chiefs in order to rectify this grave mistake specifically in relation to the area ‘Members of the Upper Eastern Regional House of Chiefs’ of L. I 2409. We wish to make the subsequent observations and recommendations: Within listing the various paramount chiefs in Upper East, this says (a) the very important chief of (ii) Kusaug (Bawku). We find this try of replacing Bawku along with ‘Kusaug’ a sacrilegious make an effort to distort/change over 300 many years of the history of Bawku and its particular surrounding areas. As formerly indicated, the word ‘Kusaug’ is definitely an alien nomenclature as far as a brief history of Bawku and the Bawku Traditional Council is concerned. Additionally, it is a serious indictment those of all the various traditional places captured in the Upper Eastern Region, it is only the intended ‘Kusaug’ that there was a have to attach Bawku in mounting brackets to provide clarity to the deceptive word ‘Kusaug’. This obviously demonstrates the fact that the word ‘Kusaug’ is alien to the Chieftaincy institution in Ghana which Bawku is the proper nomenclature that provides clarity. This delicate change of the name Bawku is in direct contravention towards the wisdom that was displayed with the leadership of the chieftaincy organization and Government in 1999 once the Self-Proclaimed Kusasis first attemptedto change the name of the city. Looking at the gravity of the error, we are forced to think that the fraudulent insertion from the alien “Kusaug” in T. I 2409 was carried out without the knowledge of the management of the National House associated with Chiefs. This is because the issue of transforming the name of the town/traditional council happens to be a security threat and if the particular leadership of the National Home of Chiefs was conscious they would not have permitted this particular fraud. We therefore contact the National House associated with Chiefs to take immediate procedure for rectify this great fraud perpetrated on the people of Bawku and the chieftaincy institution. We all express our greatest frustration in the current Government for supervisory this fraud. This is because not really the hostile PNDC/NDC authorities as it was towards Mamprusis in Bawku accepted in order to supervise this great fraud perpetrated at the over 300 many years heritage of Bawku. All of us further wish to state that the proper and legally accepted title for the traditional council could be the Bawku Traditional Council since clearly captured in area b under the heading ‘Members of the Upper East Local House of Chiefs’. Furthermore, there is no known title known as ‘Zugrana’ as far as the Bawku Traditional Council is concerned. The particular attempt to refer to Aninchema Abugrugo as Zugrana is an try in futility to associate him to the likes associated with Otumfour Asantehene, Nayiri associated with Mamprugu, Yaa Naa associated with Dagbon who are regarded as Nobleman of Kingdoms by the legal instrument and permanent Presidents of their Regional House associated with Chiefs. Unlike these several Kingdoms mentioned above that watch over over Paramount areas such as Bawku, the Bawku Conventional Council does not supervise more than any paramount area. It is often from its inception under the Nayiri of Mamprugu even a long time before it was made a Very important area in the 1930s. We all therefore urge the various Authorities agencies to disregard the communication from the alien ‘Kusaug’ Conventional Council and alien Zugrana. We demand that the circumstances be reversed immediately simply by withdrawing L. I. 2409 for correction to reveal the proper name of the conventional area as Bawku that can be in existence for over 300 yrs. INCITEFUL ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE THE BAWKU SECONDARY SCHOOLWe will also be aware that, this number of self-proclaimed Kusasis in a comparable fashion has submitted petitions to change the name of the Bawku High school graduation to Azoka Senior High School. We all wish to categorically state that we have been opposed to this move. It must be very clear to anyone since the predilection of this “lieneageless” so-called Kusasis to eliminating Bawku in every historical information is vexatious and a good assault on the cultural traditions of the town. History experience it that Bawku is a multicultural community where different cultural groups such as Mamprusis, Mossis, Bissas, Hausas, true Kusasis and several other ethnic organizations have taken as home following the town was founded in the seventeenth century. Thus, the best way to protect the ethnic cohesion one of the different ethnic groups would be to preserve the name Bawku since the name of the secondary college. Any attempt to change the title of the school to Azoka will only be a reflection from the same attempt by the self-proclaimed Kusasis to erase the particular over 300 years title of Bawku. We desire the Board of Bawku Secondary School to instantly rescind their decision in order to approve the proposal for that change of name. We all further urge the Government never to entertain the frivolous plus vexatious attempt to change the title of the school. CONCLUSIONLadies plus gentlemen of the press, at the same time when Original Traditional frontrunners all over Ghana are asking Government for development, work creation and improvement within the lives of the people within their traditional areas, what otherwise do we see within Bawku? A group of so-called Kusasis, who are bent on spinning the history of an ancient Higher Bawku. As the mouthpiece from the oppressed in the society, all of us implore on you to take frenzied efforts to help resolve this problem. An attempt to change the name of Bawku or the traditional council is really a recipe for chaos and as true descendants from the town, love peace for this reason we are bringing this issue upward. We further urge the kind of authorities to act swiftly to fix this grave error that is an assault on the sanctity of the chieftaincy institution as well as the cultural heritage of Bawku. Thank you for your timeLong Reside BawkuLong Live MampruguLong Reside GhanaCONTACT: Abdul Majeed Bagura 0245283946CC: ALL MEDIA HOUSESSource: MyNewsGh. com/ 2021
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