Gonja tensions: Six Tampulmas beating in reprisal attacks

At least six persons believed to be members of the Tampulma ethnic group in the North Gonja district have sustained severe injuries in what appears to be a reprisal attacks by a group of armed youngmen suspected to be members of the Gonja ethnic group.

According to the spokesperson of the Tampulmas, Alidu Latif, the Tampulmas were traveling from their community, Gbansikpa, to Tamale, the Northern regional capital when the Gonjas armed with sticks, clubs and sharp objects blocked roads with tree trunks and subjected them to severe beatings.

Three motorbikes belonging to the traveling Tampulmas were reportedly seized.

"They blocked the road when they were travelling to Tamale and beat them and took three motorbikes", Latfi told Starr News' Eliasu Tanko.

The Gonjas’ attack came a day after the Tampulmas allegedly attacked some two sub-chiefs who were traveling to Daboya for a press conference called by the Wasipewura and his elders.

The injured are currently receiving treatment at nearby clinics.

The Gonja youth Friday at the Wasipewura's palace had issued threats to attack the Tampulmas if the police failed to arrest the alleged Tampulma who attacked the two lower chiefs.

"We are going to attack them. They will leave the land, they have worried us too much. We are ready for the guns and we are not going back. If they are not ready for peace then we are also ready for war"

"If government doesn't know how to solve this issue, by one week, government will hear about us," one of the angry youth told Starr News.

The Tampulma group and the Gonjas in the area are at each other’s throat over the demand by the Tampulmas for a paramount chief.

Starr News checks reveal that the police is yet to make any arrest in both incidents.