Some residents of the Sherigu community of the Bolgatanga Municipal in the Upper East Region have been arrested and remanded by the Police.
Information gathered by Apexnewsgh.com has it that the residents numbering 53 were arrested for attacking police officials.
According to sources, the misunderstanding started between the Fulani and the people of the Naaga community after a Chief’s son was robbed and killed on his way returning home.
The incident generated some amount of controversy and hands were immediately pointed at the Fulanis as culprits for all the arm robbery cases along Sherigu- Naaga road. Community members immediately demanded that Fulani vacate their community with animals. Sources say properties belonging to these Fulanis were destroyed before police intervened.
Days later, the issue also escalated to Sherigu a nearby community as they also demanded that the Fulani people must leave their community because the robbery incident was beginning to get out of hand. Sources say, community members also went and destroy things belonging to the Fulani people including their animals.
Police quickly intervened and rescued the headsmen to their station and later moved them to the Bolga sports stadium.
However, after calming the situation, the information says, police received another tip of an alleged plan by some residents to attack the Fulani’s and immediately started making arrests of the leaders.
It was based on that, community members matched to the police to demand the release of their people and unfortunately had some confrontations with police.
Our source says, the community members did not engage the chief of the area before carrying out their actions.
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