Security officials in the Ashanti Region must be proactive to curb renewed riots between indigenes of Tafo and the peri-urban Muslim community (Zongo) nestled there, chief of the area Nana Agyin Frimpong II has admonished.
The two factions clashed in early February leading to one fatality. The conflict was over a fence wall. Several mosques and churches as well as cars and other property got torched and vandalised in the feud. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on the town for some months after the conflict.
Nana Agyin Frimpong II, who fears there could be fresh skirmishes, gave the warning after some irate Zongo youth chased out some residents with machetes and crude weapons in protest to their tagging of a deceased fellow Zongo resident as an armed robber.
According to the chief, the two factions are losing confidence in the ability of the security agencies to resolve their differences. In an interview with Class FM’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent Hafiz Tijani, Nana Agyin Frimpong II indicated that: “If we do not settle this issue once and for all, we will constantly have this problem. There is a gentleman here that the Zongo youth have targeted. They indicated that they will kill him by all means”.
“When the last incident happened, this gentleman saved a lot of people and has become a target since then”, he said.
He pointed out that security in the region must act swiftly to deal with the matter because “they do not want to wake up one day to hear bad news”.
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