Relative peace has been restored at Seripe a community about ten kilometres to the South of Bole in the Savannah Region following a failed attempt by some officers of the Ghana Police Service to make an arrest.
The police stormed the community at the early hours of Friday April 5, 2024 to arrest some young men who allegedly beat up one Francis Garbon.
The police in company with the said victim got into the community around 04:00 hours and went to housed to house to pick up the suspects but only managed to arrest one young man but was compelled by the community members who poured on to the secret to release him.
The angry community members especially the women and young men who were unfazed by the warning shots of the police blocked the road forcing all vehicles on both ends to stop souraunded the three police officers and demanded the release of the only suspect picked up.
The police wisely kowtoed to that before leaving the community.
It was the complain of the victim Mr Francis Garbon that a group of young men attacked him at the Dagaaba section of the village after he failed to answer their call to stop at the Gonja section when he was returning home with a motor trip of sand.
According to several accounts the said Francis who is the personal secretary to the assembly man of Seripe, Mr Dery Isaiah had been warned severally for coming up to the Gonja section without a shirt on.
Thus, the young men decided to teach him a lesson on Wednesday 3rd April when he repeated what they described as an inappropriate and disrespectful behaviour.
The community was then in an apprehensive mood hours after the police had left nearly resulting in another fight after the youth from the Gonja section went down to the Dagaaba section and demanded the emergency meeting of the Dagaaba youth should not be held.
However, the timely intervention of the high powered delegation led by the outgone Presiding Member of the Bole District Assembly and immediate former Assembly man of Seripe Electoral Area Mr Bakari Jamani brought about the restoration of relative peace enabling free movement to and fro both sections of the Seripe Community.
The delegation which included the current Presiding Member and another officer of the Bole District Assembly came with the Assembly man for Seripe who was accused of inviting the police to the community.
The DISEC team pleaded with the elders and youth of Seripe to remain calm and always use dialogue to address all misunderstandings instead of violence.
Source: yagbonradioonline/Zakaria T. Alidu
