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The seeding process of the Yaa Naa-elected, Abukari Mahama, is underway despite attempts by some people to sabotage the exercise.
At the hours of last Saturday, members of the security forces foiled an attack on the former Gbewaa Palace, resulting in the death of one person and the arrest of two others.
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The suspects, who would not have identified themselves, but from whom an AK 47 badault rifle was recovered, are currently badisting the police in their investigations.
Bagging process
After performing customary rites at Gbewaa Palace last Friday night, Naa Abukari Mahama was led in procession to Zohe.
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Hundreds of anxious spectators attended the event and paraded through the streets last Saturday to catch a glimpse of the new Overlord-in-the-making.
According to custom, Naa Mahama will be confined to Zohe, where he will undergo royal grooming until Thursday, when he will be transferred to Gbewaa Palace for his final coronation on Friday.
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According to the police, the incident occurred during curfew from dusk to dawn but did not disrupt the process of locking Yaa Naa to "Katini" at Gbewaa Palace.
The deceased, whose body was left at the morgue of Yendi Hospital and was in his early thirties, was one of the badailants who shot at the palace from a nearby house.
North District Police Command public relations officer, Deputy Police Superintendent (DSP), Mohammed Yussif Tanko, said: "Calm has since returned to Gbewaa Palace and the entire municipality. from Yendi; the situation is monitored.
He stressed that possession of illegal weapons and ammunition was still a crime, especially in Yendi and surrounding communities.
Meanwhile, the military and police personnel of the municipality remains alert and has intensified its surveillance operations to help quell any threat to peace as the process of confining the new Yaa Naa continues at the traditional headquarters. of the Dagbon Kingdom ('Namship'). .
The Ministry of the Interior imposed 17 hours curfew at 7 am on the municipality of Dagbon. The curfew was revised yesterday from 18:00 to 18:00.
Messages of good will
Congratulatory messages have been pouring in for the Naa-elected Yaa since Dagbon's chief goalkeeper Kuga Naa Abdulai Adam announced his selection last Friday.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; Former President John Dramani Mahama and Bolin Lana of the Abudu royal family, Mahamadu Abdulai, have all congratulated the Naa-elected Yaa.
"Like the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians, I am delighted with this day and look forward to seeing Yendi soon to congratulate the new Yaa Naa in person once it will be released. . I badure him, and all the people of Dagbon, of the unconditional support of my government, which has helped to restore Dagbon's former glory and greatness, "said President Akufo-Addo.
Former President Mahama, for his part, is pleased that after "many years of hard work, negotiations, long meetings, disagreements, traditional considerations and agreements, we are celebrating efforts of successive governments for this day, Dagbon having finally found peace.
Committee of eminent leaders
In a statement, the Committee of Eminent Chiefs, composed of three members and chaired by Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, also congratulated Naa Mahama for her selection within the Dagbon skin.
The committee, which mediated on the long crisis of the chefferie dagbon, thanked the "accredited seniors (king manufacturers) of Dagbon, led by Kuga Naa, for applying the tried and tested practices and customs in the selection process. of the new Yaa Naa ".
He thanked the royal families Abudu and Andani for their "understanding and cooperation in the funeral of Naa Mahamadu Abdulai IV and Naa Yakubu Andani II.
The statement urged the Naa-elected Yaa to work for Dagbon to return to his normal state.
He also promised the committee that the committee was ready to engage the Yaa Naa in resolving all outstanding issues related to the funerals of the Dagbon princes and elders and the sequestration of the Yaa Naa Abdulai IV and Yaa Naa regents. Andani II, as well as other regents.
"We call on all Dagombas, especially Abudus and Andanis, to grant recognition and obedience to the new Yaa Naa as we chart a new path for lasting peace in Dagbon," the statement said.
The other members of the committee are the overlord of the Mamprugu traditional region, Nayiri Nabohagu Mahami Sheriga, and the suzerain of the traditional Gonja region, Yagbonwura Tutumba Boresa II.
Events from March 2002
The selection of a Yaa Naa background for Dagbon and the preparations for his coronation at Gbewaa Palace on Friday brought relief to the nation that had to face long wars in the aftermath of Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani's death II in Yendi in March 2002.
The current events in Yendi also provide a glimmer of hope for the accelerated development of the region, which had been slow to develop for 17 years due to precarious and unsustainable peace.
The late Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II was satiated on May 31, 1974 until his badbadination on March 27, 2002 with about thirty of his elders at the Gbewaa Palace. He was later buried in a state on April 10, 2006, as a result of a compromise between the main actors of the dagbon chieftaincy, the Abudus and the Andanis.
On April 21, 2006, the eldest son of Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani was chosen as regent of Dagbon, with the skin name Kampakuya Naa Abdulai Yakubu Andani, charged with managing the affairs of the kingdom until the last funeral rites celebrated from January 11th. 2019 to 18 January 2019.
Wuaku Commission
Following the tragic events in Yendi on March 22, 2002, which also resulted in numerous injuries and mbad destruction of property, the then President, John Agyekum Kufuor, by his constitutional instrument of 2002 ( CI 36), appointed an investigation commission on April 25. , 2002 to investigate the incident.
The commission, chaired by a retired judge of the Supreme Court, Judge INK Wuaku, with Professor Kwesi Yankah, then with the University of Ghana, and Ms. Florence Brew, educator, as members, was appointed for a four-point term. reference.
First, the commission "was to conduct a full, fair and impartial investigation into the circumstances and establish the facts behind the events and the resulting injuries and deaths in Yendi, in the traditional Dagbon region, in the Northern Region, March 25-27. 2002 "and secondly," identify those responsible for events and injuries and resulting deaths and recommend appropriate sanctions or actions against any person found guilty, responsible or involved in acts of violence, as well as deaths and injured people "
It was also "to investigate any matter that the commission deems to be fortuitous or reasonably related to the events and the resulting deaths and injuries" and, fourthly, "to submit its report to the President, within a specified period of time". A month, setting out the reasons for its conclusions and recommendations. "
On May 29, 2002, the commission encountered some shortcomings that it overcame before presenting its report to President Kufuor on November 6, 2002.
The commission, in its report, described the troubles in Yendi as "the three-day war".
"After reviewing all the evidence before the Commission, we have come to the conclusion that the events in Yendi on March 25, 26, and 27, 2002, were criminal acts of of war held between two doors of the two gates are blameworthy, "he said.
On the immediate cause of unrest, the commission said that it was a "trivial incident." "An attack on Ziblim Abdulai by a young Abudu on the morning of March 25, 2002 angered a young Andani, who armed himself and fired shots at Abudus. Indeed, the first victim in the exchanges was an Abudu-Abdulai Issahaku, also known as "Who Born You". He was shot dead by unidentified Mutaru mates. "
Following the presentation of the report in which the alleged killers of Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani were identified, the government published a white paper on the basis of which the public prosecutor initiated criminal proceedings against 15 persons, but were acquitted and acquitted by the High Court, presided over by Judge EK Ayebi, on March 29, 2011.
The reasons were that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against each of the accused on the badumption that the evidence presented by the 12 prosecution witnesses was contradictory and fabricated with fabricated stories against the accused. then discredited on cross-examination.
Efforts of successive governments
Successive governments played various roles in bringing peace to Dagbon in the aftermath of the March 2002 leadership crisis.
The Committee of Eminent Chiefs of former President Kufuor, who began work in 2002 to find a lasting solution to the long-running conflict between the Dagbon chiefdom, has therefore developed a road map for peace and security. Forwarded to President Jubilee House 21 November 2018.
Among the committee's recommendations were the funerals of Yaa Naa Mahamadu Abdulai from 14 to 28 December 2018 and those of Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II from 4 to 201 January 18.
Last Friday, in the evening, accredited Dagbon alumni were to enter the sacred solitary hall of Gbewaa Palace to consult traditional oracles for the selection of a new Yaa Naa for Dagbon.
The Government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), chaired by the late President John Evans Atta Mills and Mr. Mahama, even though they promised to arrest and bring to justice the perpetrators of the Dagbon crisis in their 2008 manifesto , could not meet this campaign commitment.
President Mahama, however, managed to rebuild some of the homes of the guards of the Agbon tradition, destroyed in the aftermath of the 2002 conflict.
The two presidents, including the current government led by Nana Akufo-Addo, also contributed to efforts to keep the peace in Dagbon and also supported the efforts of the Committee of Eminent Leaders in the development of the road map for peace now being implemented.
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