One person has been killed and several others injured in a renewed chieftaincy clash between two factions in Bole, Northern Region.
Several houses have also been torched, leading several residents fleeing for dear life.
Bole-based radio station, Nkilgi FM, reported that the deceased is a supporter of one royal faction led by chief Issahaku Abdulai Kant while two sons of a rival chief, Abutu Abubakari, were also shot and injured.
In October this year, one Issahaku Kant threatened to enskin himself as the chief of Bole if the paramount chief of Gonjaland, the Yagbonwura, failed to perform that ceremony despite the Judicial Council of the Regional House of Chiefs having ruled in his (Kant’s) favour.
The Yagbonwura had declared Abubakari Abutu as the rightful heir.
The Judicial Committee of the Northern Regional House of Chiefs, in a landmark ruling, declared chief Abudulai Issahaku Kant as the legitimate chief of Mandari, a farming community near Bole in the Bole District of the Northern Region.
But the Yagbonwura, who is the Supreme leader and president of the House of Chiefs, has allegedly refused to validate the victory of Abdulai Kant and further moved to enskin the defeated Mandariwura.
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