Who’s behind the 59 AK 47 rifles smuggled to Walewale? – Chief asks IGP

The Chiefs and people of the Wasipe traditional area in the North Gonja district wants to know the brains behind the 59 AK 47 Assault Rifles that were being smuggled to Walewale in the West Mamprusi district of the North East region.

Addressing a press conference at Daboya in the North Gonja district of the Savannah region, Chief Gbonapowura Mahama Saakan who spoke on behalf of the Paramount Chief of the Wasipe traditional area, Wasipewura Mumuni Anyame Kabasagya said 59 Assault Rifles were seized at a suburb of Accra called Ablekuma enroute to Walewale as reported by an Accra-based radio station on Friday, 30 August 2019 and asked if there was some power behind the acquisition and shipment of such rifles.

Gbonapowura Mahama Saakan, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the then Damongo/Daboya Constituency said the silence of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and National Security is not healthy for Ghana’s security and development hence Ghanaians and the whole world must know so that Ghana does not experience what happened in Rwanda.

“These weapons without doubt are meant to annihilate Gonja folks in Wasipe already made known by a Chief from Mamprusi called Sonaba; these weapons we suspect were being shipped to Janga ostensively to be moved to Wasipe to fight, kill and occupy Daboya and its environs,” the Chief alleged.

Chief Gbonapewura alleged that the Sonaba recently incited war between his own brethren in Lukula over the siting of a mosque during which lives were lost and hundreds of people displaced as part of his agenda to expand his territory and his annexation propaganda before the referendum for the creation of new regions including the Savannah and the North East regions.

“We do not want to believe that Toibu Abdul- Rahman and his friends have on several occasions promised the Tampulma and Mamprusi settlers in North Gonja of Gonjaland that certain personality would help carve out of North Gonja and add to Mamprugu should the New Patriotic Party (NPP) win the 2016 Elections,” the statement from the Wasipe Chiefs and people said.

He said Gonjas acquired their vast land by conquest and are still prepared to fight on land, on water and in the air to maintain every inch of it without fear.

Gbonapowura Mahama Saakan called on the IGP, National Security and all peace-loving people of the world to speak to this issue of proliferation of offensive weapons (AK 47 Assault Rifles) and the chanting of war songs by the Sonaba.

The police counterterrorism unit arrested four suspects believed to have played a role in shipping some 59 AK-47 rifles to Walewale in the North East region.

According to a Joy FM report, investigators from the Police counterterrorism unit tracking the shipment of 59 AK 47 riffles from Accra to Walewale on Friday, 30 August 2019 stormed a house at Ablekuma in Accra in search of the suspects while they were negotiating the sale of AK47 rifle.