{"id":274301,"date":"2011-01-17T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=48124"},"modified":"2011-01-17T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:58:19","slug":"minister-orders-arrest-troublesome-foot-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/17\/minister-orders-arrest-troublesome-foot-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Orders: Arrest Troublesome Foot-soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_48125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48125\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-48125\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/17\/minister-orders-arrest-troublesome-foot-soldiers\/moses-mabengba\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48125\" title=\"Moses Mabengba\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Moses-Mabengba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Regional Minister - Moses Mabengba<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Northern Regional Minister, Moses  Bukari Mabengba, has directed the police to henceforth arrest and  prosecute National Democratic Congress (NDC) foot-soldiers who through  unwarranted agitations lock up offices.<br \/>\nMr. Mabengba indicated  that there were laid down regulations on demonstrations in accordance  with the public order act but the party&#8217;s youth in recent times had  flouted those rules during their rampages.<br \/>\nHe said the increasing  number of reports involving foot-soldiers threatening government  appointees and locking up their offices in the region was beginning to  get on the nerves of the Regional Security Committee (REGSEC).<br \/>\nThe  minister, who also chairs the Northern Regional Security Committee,  therefore directed that such deviant foot-soldiers be arrested and dealt  with ruthlessly to serve as a deterrent to others. &#8220;We cannot continue  to condone such indiscipline acts in the name of agitations,&#8221; he  remarked.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the party&#8217;s youth had the right to  demonstrate but were only allowed to present a petition to the President  through the minister, after which the matter may be looked into. He  however expressed worry at the manner in which some of these  foot-soldiers had taken the law into their own hands, treating some  government appointees as if they (foot soldiers) had appointed them.<br \/>\nMr.  Mabengba, who spoke to Daily Guide about the ensuing fracas between the  West Mamprusi District Chief Executive (DCE), Abudu Sulley Zakari Lord  and the youth of the area, disclosed that the situation was calm.<br \/>\nHe  confirmed Daily Guide&#8217;s earlier reports that the DCE had been given a  24-hour police protection at both his office and official residence, but  indicated that he was cautioned of security implications if he failed  to adhere to REGSEC&#8217;s directives.<br \/>\nThe minister hinted that an  official report on the matter would be dispatched to President Mills for  him to look into the matter, expressing the hope that calm would be  restored in the area as soon as possible.<br \/>\nEarlier, the minister  and some members of REGSEC called on traditional rulers of the area and  pressed upon them to advise the youth in order for peace to prevail in  the district after weeks of party agitations.<br \/>\nFoot-soldiers and constituency executives in Walewale declared Lord Sulley Abudu Zakari, the DCE, persona non grata.<br \/>\nThe  aggrieved foot-soldiers had earlier armed themselves to the teeth and  braced themselves for a possible bloodbath if he dared return to the  office, which was locked up during the last demonstration.<br \/>\nIt  would be recalled that hundreds of NDC supporters last Wednesday hit the  streets of Walewale for the second time in five months in protest  against what they described as the tyranny leadership of Lord Sulley  Abudu Zakari.<br \/>\nThey were reported to have locked up the offices of  the DCE and attempted lynching him but the DCE managed to escape as he  had been hinted of their intentions.<br \/>\nThe rioters threatened  mayhem if he dared resumed official duties, claiming his continued stay  in office was derailing the fortunes of the assembly, which for the last  two years had witnessed retrogression under his supervision. The DCE  has since resumed official duties but is under heavy security after  members of REGSEC visited the area on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Regional Minister, Moses Bukari Mabengba, has directed the police to henceforth arrest and prosecute National Democratic Congress (NDC) foot-soldiers who through unwarranted agitations lock up offices. Mr. Mabengba indicated that there were laid down regulations on demonstrations in accordance with the public order act but the party&#8217;s youth in recent times had flouted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister Orders: Arrest Troublesome Foot-soldiers - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/17\/minister-orders-arrest-troublesome-foot-soldiers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Minister Orders: Arrest Troublesome Foot-soldiers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Northern Regional Minister, Moses Bukari Mabengba, has directed the police to henceforth arrest and prosecute National Democratic Congress (NDC) foot-soldiers who through unwarranted agitations lock up offices. 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