Unfortunately it’s a poor time for us – Akufo-Addo on enskinment of new Bawku Naba

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that reports of the enskinment of new Bawku Naba Bawku come at a poor time for the country.

Already, the President said, there is a crisis in Bawku that the security agencies are dealing with.

“Unfortunately it’s a poor time for us, we have first of all a big crisis on our hands in Bawku as we speak. Things are happening which are causing a lot of problems for the security there, and I was in a meeting with them,” President Akufo-Addo said in a meeting with Ministers of Defense, Interior, Local Government, and Information and also security chiefs over enskinment of the new Bawku Naba in Nalerigu on Wednesday, February 15.

The government condemned the enskinment which took place at Nalerigu on Wednesday, February 15.

A statement issued by the Ministry of Information said Naa Asigri Azoka II is still the Bawku Naba.

The King of the Maprugu Traditional area Naa Bohugu Mahami I was reported to have enskinned Alhaji Seidu Abagre as the new chief for Bawku on Wednesday, February 15 at the Nayiri Palace in Nalerigu.

But the government in a statement condemned the act and directed the security to arrest anyone who holds himself as such.

“The Government condemns developments in Nalerigu today February 15, 2023, concerning the purported enskinment of a new Bawku Naba as illegal and a threat to National Security,” the government said.

“Government further reiterates that Naba Asigri Azoka I is the Bawku Naba, duly gazetted and a member of the National and Upper East Regional House of Chiefs.

“The security agencies have therefore been directed to arrest and prosecute any other person who holds himself as Bawku Nana,” it added.

By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana

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