Rawlings risks arrest - Malik

Minister of the Interior, Malik Alhassan, has indicated that former President Rawlings, will be arrested if reports that he told Nanumbas in Northern Ghana to start piling up arms because the New Patriotic party (NPP) government is about to impose Konkomba dominance on them again, is found to be accurate......developing....

Rawlings Exposes Malik Alhassan - The Ghanaian Voice
What started as a homely advice and a wake-up call to the people in the Northern Region to see through the evil machinations of NPP government’s Minister of the Interior has been twisted and misinterpreted by NPP propaganda stalwarts in the Northern Region.

Findings by The Ghanaian Voice indicate that when the ex-President was on his way to Bimbilla, he stopped over at Yendi where he paid a courtesy call on the Ya-Na. At Yendi, he was informed of the widening gap in the chieftaincy problem between Andani-Gate and Abudu-Gate. He was further informed that the whole problem was being created by the Minister of the Interior, Malik Alhassan, and that the same tactics was what precipitated the fracas between the Kusasis and the Maprusis.

Armed with this information, the ex-President at six different rallies advised the people to watch out not to fall into the divisive trap of Malik Alhassan because when mayhem or trouble break out he would be sitting comfortably in his air conditioned office in Accra while innocent people would be suffering for it.

He told the people that these divisive tendencies have been the stock-in-trade of people like Malik Alhassan and that they should not kotow to their intimidation and harassment but should resist the mischievous attempts to divide and rule them.

At no time did he mention the Kokombas and Nanumbers and advised them that when the NPP people bring money they should collect the money and use it to settle their financial problems in these difficult times but vote against the NPP. The Ghanaian Voice gathered also that there is no NPP campaign going on in the Bimbilla township and that the ground is so hot that the NPP national organizer, Lord Commey, and the Northern Regional Minister, Prince Andani, were even booed at some stages.

Another information available to this paper also indicate that a million cedis each has been lavished on the ‘Operation Gon-Gon’ and that all the District Assemblies have been asked to contribute from ?5 million to ten million for the campaigning on the forthcoming elections. The Ghanaian Voice further gathered that since Ibn Chambas, a Nanumba, who was occupying the position did not complete his term, a Nanumba must fill his place.