2 killed in fresh Nkonya-Alavanyo clashes

Two people are reported to have died in fresh clashes between the Nkonyas and Alavanyos in the Volta region.

The two groups are age-old rivals. According to information available to XYZ News the fresh conflict started over a land dispute.

The MCE for the area has dispatched security personnel to the two towns to ensure that the situation does not escalate.

There were similar clashes over a month ago which led to the killing of 52-year old Anthony Akoto who was shot dead and 48-year old Michael Sarpong who was decapitated.

The two victims from Nkonya-Tayi were both killed on their farms.

Security personnel were deployed to the area to forestall reprisal attacks.

Just in the dying embers of last year, one person was killed in two separate shooting incidents on Saturday December 29, 2012.

Security was once again heightened following the incident.

Thereafter, the Paramount Chief of the Alavanyo Traditional Area, Togbega Tsedze Atakora, organised a press conference and called on the people of Nkonya to return to the mediation table—headed by a former Moderator of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Most Reverend Livingstone Buama—in order to find a lasting solution to the conflict in the area.