Yendi Mediation Team begins deliberations

President John Agyekum Kufuor is articipating in the preliminary discussions of the three-member Yendi Mediation Team, which began at the State House in Accra on Thursday.

The team, made up of three prominent traditional rulers, would then begin its deliberations and determine possible solutions to the crisis after which it would have separate meetings with the delegation from the Andani and Abudu gates. They would have another meeting with the Presidential Fact-Finding Team on the Dagbon crisis and finally present their report to government.

The President named the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Nayiri Gamni Muhammadu, paramount chief of the Mamprugu Traditional Area and the Yagbon-Wura, bawa dashie II, papamount Chief of the Gonja Traditional Area, to helpd find a lasting solution to the crisis in the Dagbon Traditional Area. The age-long crisis exploded once more last week leading to the killing of at least 28 people, including the Ya-Na.