The Member of Parliament for Damongo Constituency, Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor has sent a delegation to Busunu to apologize and empathize with the family of late Queen mother of Busunu for the brouhaha that ensued between supporters of the NPP and NDC during the 7 days funeral rites performance of the late queen mother.

The delegation was led by the Municipal Chief Executive for the West Gonja Municipal Assembly Hon. Karim Musah Kusubari who was accompanied by the Damongo Constituency NPP chairman and some of the Constituency executives.

Addressing the family, Hon. Musah Kusubari said the MP for Damongo Constituency is very sad about what transpired.

According to him, the MP holds the late Busunuwurche and the entire family in high esteem and that is why he together with the government delegation and the NPP party supporters did not appear in party colors at the funeral grounds knowing very well that it wasn’t a political event

The MCE for West Gonja Municipality further added that it was rather unfortunate that some persons, instead of mourning and celebrating the late Queen Mother, resorted to fighting and turning the funeral grounds into a party rally ground, thus fomenting troubles.

Hon. Kusubari, said some family members of the late Queen Mother had visited his office on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, to express gratitude to him and the Damongo Constituency MP for their roles in the funeral rites of the late Busunuwurche.

The final funeral rites of the late Busunu Queen Mother were marred by violence due to political tension between supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). This tension escalated when supporters of the NDC, believed to be from Tamale in the Northern Region, attempted to block the entry of representatives of the NPP, led by Chief of Staff Madam Frema Opare and MP for Damongo Constituency, Samuel Abu Jinapor, who arrived late at the venue.

Reports from Busunu indicated that tensions escalated amidst alleged gunshots, resulting in multiple injuries to supporters of both the NDC and NPP. Security agencies intervened to calm the situation.

MP for Damongo Constituency, Lawyer Abu Jinapor, and former President Mahama condemned the violent acts, calling for peace and restraint among the youth of both parties.

Many people have since raised concerns over the politicization of such events and the potential for further unrest if tensions are not swiftly and decisively defused in future gatherings of the two parties, especially as 2024 is an election year.

The New Patriotic Party in the Savannah Region has condemned the attack on NPP members by the NDC during the funeral rites performance of the late queen mother of Busunu.

According to our source, some NDC macho men tried to prevent the Chief of Staff Madam Akosua Frema Osei-Opare who was accompanied by the MP for Damongo Constituency Hon Lawyer Abu Jinapor, the Savannah Regional Minister Hon Saeed Muhazu Jibril, the Savannah Regional NPP Chairman Alhaji Iddrisu Sulemana Prof Kalamonia together with some party bigwigs who came for the funeral from getting access to the funeral grounds of the late Busunu queen mother.

This generated into an exchange of blows between the NDC and NDC leaving some two members of NPP injured. It took the intervention of the military and police personnel to bring the situation under control.

The funeral of the late Busunu queen mother was also attended by the former president of the Republic of Ghana and flag bearer of the opposition NDC H.E John Dramani Mahama, the Savannah Regional caucus of NDC members of parliament and parliamentary candidates, Savannah Regional NDC executives and some NDC party bigwigs.

Spear FM sighted a release from the Savannah Regional NPP Secretary Mr. Mohammed Issah condemning the act by the NDC.

Read the release below.

*TAMALE NDC THUGS DISRUPTS BUSUNU QUEEN MOTHER FUNERAL DUE TO GROWING NPP POPULARITY IN SAVANNA REGION*

15/02/2024.

In what was supposed to be a moment of reflection and respect for the gentle soul of our Queen Mother, Busunuwurche at Busunu in the Damongo Constituency, the unrepentant NDC metamorphosed this into a sad scene as they sponsored, planned, and orchestrated thuggery to mar the beauty and significance of the funeral. It was ably executed by a gang of NDC criminals led by their first national Vice Chairman, Azoka from Tamale.

They first attacked an NPP branded vehicle and its driver before openly attacking the military personnel on duty at the grounds without any provocation.

This criminal gang from Tamale also attempted to stop the government delegation from getting onto the podium and in the full glare of the security and mourners, attacked some 2 indigenes of Busunu. The love and resistance of the people of Busunu for their Member of Parliament, Lawyer Samuel Abu Jinapor didn’t allow the wish of these strangers to prevail. The podium was mounted by the Maverick Lawmaker, the outstanding Chief of staff, the Savannah Regional Minister and the unblemished Regional Chairman.

In all these, the former president, John Mahama was comfortably seated and supervising the thuggery and unlawful attacks at innocent Gonjalanders and the Security. He was surely enjoying the wanton disregard for peace and public safety as his men from Tamale molested the people of Busunu for merely supporting their Member of Parliament and the government.

On the contrary, the venerable and unblemished Vice President and NPP Flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been an obedient and productive son to Gonjaland. His last visit to the Region was a show and display of rich culture and reverence for the Yagbonwura. A very humble and peaceful Bawumia came and left with only positive headlines for the Region.

The New Patriotic Party in the Savannah Region wishes to condemn in strongest possible words, the conduct of the NDC by NDC hooligans from Tamale that disrupted a social program of such magnitude. The S/R is not a war zone, the Azorka and his boys should get themselves enlisted into the Russia-Ukrain military; that is where their services maybe needed.

The plan of the NDC has always been violence, they can’t survive anything on ideas and policy. Their action has collaborated with the war drums the NDC S/R was fuming sometime last year on Kasha FM in Damongo.

The people of Savannah Region are resolute on the need to give back to a government that stood for them in times of need. The love at these social events for the NPP and its functionaries is undiluted. The love is pure and unshaken. No amount of violence and attacks would stop it. Gonjaland and S/R for that matter have given far too much to Mr. Mahama with peanut in developmental and human resource return. We don’t owe him any more years of governance.

The Regional Party puts out without any unequivocation, that this would never happen again in the Region. No indigene from the Savannah Region or Gonjaland shall be attacked by John Mahama and his NDC any longer. If they ever try it again, the gods of the land would speak loudly.

We are serving a caution of our battle readiness to protect the peace of the region by all means, the John Mahama led NDC lacks what it takes to create a region like S/R, so they can put irresponsible behaviors such as today at Busunu.

We have since identified all these hooligans from Tamale. They have been well noted and the next move would surely be managed appropriately.

We again extend a passionate appeal to the Savannah Regional Police Command to take keen interest in what happened, conduct lawful investigation, and bring perpetrators to book. We are very mindful of our rights to safety and the need to protect our lives and that of others on our land.

Lessons has been learned, fingers crossed and it serves as the last time NDC criminals will use the S/R as a practical war zone.

Signed:
Mohammed Issah
0244227266
Regional Secretary, Savannah NPP

Ahead of your visit to Damongo and by extension Nana Addo’s Savannah region, let me heartily welcome you. I am reaching out to you from my abode( Sangayiri) in Larabanga, where you reneged on your promise in 2008 to provide pipe-borne water should the NDC be voted to power and you become the vice president. If you can remember, that was where in April 2008, you told the people that their source of drinking water which was a dam and some boreholes provided by former president Kuffuor was not suitable for even animals and so you would provide pipe-borne water for should you become the vice president. The people have been drinking that same water for the eight years you were at the helm of affairs in this country, first as a vice president, a situational president,,, and the substantive president until Nana Addo, Bawumia, and Lawyer Abu Jinapor

I have heard you will be visiting the Jakpa Palace per your itinerary to present yourself as the flagbearer of the NDC for the 2024 elections to the Yagbonwura and the Gonja Traditional Council as the presidential candidate of the NDC. The last time you did this was in April 2008. Factually, for the two times you were made the flagbearer of the NDC when you were in power, that is in 2012 and 2016, you never in any grand style presented yourself to the Yagbonwura and the Gonja Traditional Council. ? I also heard that you shall attend the seven-day funeral rites of Busunuwurche. Wow! Is this not great? Someone who was conspicuously missing in almost every big event in Gonjaland be it the Yagbon Damba celebration or the annual Gonjaland Youth Association gathering though you were proudly invited as a son of the land? It is on record that from January 2009 to January 2017 when you were at the top echelon of Ghana’s leadership, the only year you graced the Yagbon Damba was in 2011 when Yagbonwura Tuntumba celebrated his first anniversary. Is it that it is only when you are in opposition that you deem it fit to come home? Or do you best fit the Gonja wise saying that ” it is when the leg of a goat is broken that it knows the way to its owner’s house”

For your information, the political trick you have always played on the minds of the people of Gonjaland to vote for you as a kinsman has quickly deteriorated. Your usual statement and message to us that you are our kinsman and hence we should vote for you no longer rings a bell in the ears of many. Except the dyed-in-wool members of the NDC who still carry you in high esteem, all Gonjalanders who mean well for the land are rooting for your contender, Dr. Bawumia. The way and manner you forsook the land and denied it of monumental development still anger a lot of us well- meaning Gonjalanders to the marrow. I hope you saw it culminate in the 2020 presidential and Parliamentary results in the Savannah region.

The reverence Nana Addo and Bawumia have given the people of Gonja coupled with the unprecedented development they pushed to the land has endeared them with the us. Dr. Bawumia before he even picked form to contest the NPP flagbearership submitted himself to the Yagbonwura and came back immediately to express his words of appreciation to him after he won the contest.

Should we vote against Bawumia after all this he did for us as a people just because you are our kinsman?

1) The creation of the Savannah region, something that you refused doing when you had the authority to do so because of your personal interest.
2) The creation of the North East Gonja district that increased the number of districts of Gonjaland to seven (The West Gonja and East Gonja districts created by the Colonial masters, Sawla- Tuna- Kalba and Central Gonja districts created by former president Kuffuor,North Gonja district created by the late former president Mills).
3) The construction of the Buipe and Sawla district hospitals that you cut sod for their construction without funding has been started and fully completed and put into good use.
4) The upgrading of the the West Gonja and East Gonja districts into municipalities.
5) The upgrading of the Bole district police command to a divisional police command.
6) The connection of the several communities to the national grid.
7) The construction of the Sanyeri bridge in your own hometown , Bole
8) The numerous job opportunities given to the youth of Gonja
9) The construction of the Daboya- Mankargu road
10) The construction of the Virgin Bunjai- Fufulso road
11) The four(4) Astro turfs in the region.
12) The construction of the Damongo and Salaga township roads.
13) The Yapei and Salaga water projects.
14) The numerous scholarships given to the youth of Gonjaland.
15) The numerous educational facilities and infrastructure.
16) The numerous health facilities including the North Gonja and North East Gonja district hospitals under the agenda 111 policy.

It’s me.
Iddi Adam Osman
Larabanga.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in their bid to capture power in the 2024 general elections have held an inauguration and orientation for their volunteers and surrogates group.

The inauguration and orientation was done by the national director for volunteers and surrogates, madam Hufaiza Wunnam together with the Savannah Regional youth wing of the party.

The group, which was inaugurated at the instance of its national director is made of representative from all the seven constituencies of the Savannah Region.

Various speakers from both national and regional levels charged the group to work assiduously with the party structures in order to secure a resounding victory for H.E. John Dramani Mahama and the party’s parliamentary candidates in the Savannah Region.

The volunteers were also equipped with various techniques and strategies in marketing the good policy initiatives of the party and how to persuade people to vote for the NDC.

The Regional Youth wing was represented by the two deputy youth organisers, Hon. Bawa Mubarik and Hon. Abdul Razak, and the regional director of volunteers and surrogates, Mr. Salifu.

The youth front indeed expressed their gratitude to Madam Huzaifa Wunam, Hon. Seidu Fiter and particularly members of the volunteer group for their continuous commitment and loyalty to the course of the NDC party in the Savannah Region.

According to the Savannah Regional NDC youth leaders, It is the considered view of the youth wing that the knowledge and experiences learnt at the programme will brighten the prospects of the party and consequently maximise their votes for a resounding victory come December 2024

Source: Hamza Sulemana