Kusaug Youth Movement has described themselves as law-abiding citizens and peace-loving people in response to the earlier press conference by a group known as Mamprusi Youth of Bawku. Members of the Kusaug Youth Movement made this known in a press conference organized in the Upper East Regional capital Bolgatanga on Monday, November 29, 2021. However, the group in their press conference also extended a call to their Mamprusi Youth brothers to give peace a chance. Below is the full press conference: RESPONSE OF KUSAUG YOUTH MOVEMENT TO THE BAWKU MAMPRUSI YOUTH ASSOCIATION Ladies and Gentlemen of the press, we welcome you to this press conference to address some inaccuracies in statements made by a group of Mamprusi Youth of Bawku. Ladies and Gentlemen, we would have ignored the said presser. But our brothers from the Mamprusi Youth of Bawku spewed a lot of lies which if not corrected will mislead the general public and peace-loving Ghanaians. We thus wish to set the records straight and to inform you on recent happenings in Bawku. In their presser, our Mamprusi compatriots alleged that the Upper East and North East Regional Ministers visited the Nayiri and sought permission to extend the performance of the funeral of Late Tampuri Zangbego Turiba. Ladies and Gentlemen, this was a twisted story and a grand scheme fashioned to sabotage the efforts of two gentlemen in their resolve to get a solution to the Bawku impasse. Able men of the Media, does it not baffle you that someone died about 40 years ago and his funeral is to be performed now? In fact, the late Tampuri Zangbego Turiba whose purported funeral the Mamprusis attempted performing didn’t die as a chief but as a commoner. He was dethroned before he died and a series of Islamic funeral rites were duly performed. The Mamprusis in Bawku are destructive and so because they have nothing to lose since they do not come from Bawku. This explains why they have always taken arms rather than dialogue or pursues the law courts. Besides, their ill ambitions have always led them to accuse well-meaning individuals including their kinsmen otherwise, how could the North East Regional Minister, who is a known Mamprusi conspire with Hon. Stephen Yakubu to favour other tribes? We are at lost wits to understand their accusation that the Upper East Minister is varying the implementation of the impending curfew. The imposition of the current curfew is on Bawku Municipality and its environs. This implies that communities in the Pusiga, Garu, Binduri, and Zebilla District Assemblies are excluded since they do not belong to the Bawku Municipal Assembly. Does excluding these districts suggest the Minister is biased or discriminatory? If so, then they should blame the Interior Minister and not the innocent Upper East Regional Minister who is simply implementing what has been imposed by way of curfew. Perhaps, they do not understand that Bawku Municipality is different from Pusiga, Garu, Binduri, and Zebilla District Assemblies. To this end, we unconditionally forgive them for their inability to grasp the Queen’s language in the use of ‘Bawku Municipality and its environs’. For clarity, ‘Bawku Municipality and its environs’ as contained in the imposition document means communities or suburbs around Bawku in which the movements, activities, actions and inactions of people within those areas (environs) are likely to disrupt the order or implementation of the curfew. The communities outside the jurisdiction of Bawku Municipality are thus legally exempted from the enforcement of the curfew regulation. Therefore, accusing the Upper East Regional Minister of bias and favoring Kusasis is baseless and mischievous. The unfortunate happenings in Bawku now are because of their arrogance, deceit, and empty pride. Our Mamprusis brothers must come to appreciate that Bawku will never come under any form of colonization as was the case in the past. We are aware that the Bawku Mamprusis are riding on the shoulders of individuals close to the corridors of power. We are not naive of the political maneuverings, the hate game, and the grand scheme manufactured to dislodge the current Upper East Regional Minister. This is so because one of them strongly lobbied for the Upper East Regional Minister’s post but lost due to incompetence. We, including all peace loving Ghanaians, are fed up with these awkward accusations and activities by the Mamprusis in Bawku that send Bawku backward. The Bawku Mamprusis are not the only people in the northern territory and must realize that it takes two to tango. In the light of these and many more accusations, we wish to advise the Mamprusis Youth of Bawku to swallow their pride and avoid accusing well-meaning Ghanaians including Hon. Stephen Yakubu, Hon. Lawyer Dendiok Kpemka, Hon. Aludiba Hannan and the Upper East Regional Coordinating Director, as mentioned in their misleading presser. We thus urge the Mamprusi Youth in Bawku to dance to their own mischievous tunes. They created them and must dance alone and suffer alone. They should not now attempt to draw others into their mess. We are therefore calling on the President of the Republic, H.E.  Akuffo Addo, and all well-meaning Ghanaians to ignore their presser. Ladies and Gentlemen of the press, Kusasis are law-abiding citizens and peace-loving people and we wish to urge all Ghanaians to support our peace efforts. We again call on our Mamprusi Youth to give peace a chance. Long live Ghana Long live Upper East Region Long live Kusaug ABUGRI A. HARUNA (Convener, Kusaug Youth Movement) 0243855080 AYAABA APUNEN ADAMS (Secretary) 0242620947 Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093