He noted that poor utilisation could undermine public confidence and derail efforts to stabilise and rebuild Bawku... The initiative follows the endorsement of the Bawku Conflict Mediation Report presented by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
The Government of Ghana has announced a GHC1 billion Bawku Revitalisation Fund to drive post-conflict reconstruction and development in the Bawku area of the Upper East Region.
Managing News Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr. , says the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II-led Bawku Mediation Report offers no new facts beyond what has already been settled by the Supreme Court... .
It is almost about two and a half year since your predecessor invited me to mediate in a major conflict in Bawku that had become a major threat to the security of the nation,” he said ... in Bawku.
As a key figure in the contention over the Bawku skin, Seidu Abagre is to be recalled to Nalerigu and be reassigned to perform a different traditional role at the Palace of the Nayiri in Nalerigu. .
Bawku has endured years of intermittent violence stemming from the chieftaincy dispute, with hundreds of lives lost and widespread destruction of property.