{"id":605558,"date":"2019-04-06T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  6 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>asempanews.com<\/p>\n2019-04-06\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/03\/610354"},"modified":"2019-04-06T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T08:35:18","slug":"yaa-naa-promoting-divisions-in-dagbon-we-demand-an-abudu-chief-nanton-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/06\/yaa-naa-promoting-divisions-in-dagbon-we-demand-an-abudu-chief-nanton-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Yaa Naa promoting divisions in Dagbon; we demand an Abudu Chief&#8217; \u2013 Nanton Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  6 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>asempanews.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/61035462.295.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YAA NAA3\" title=\"NEW YAA NAA3\" width=\"295\" height=\"198\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Yaa-Naa Mahama Abukari II<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Protesting youth of Nanton in the Northern Region have said the Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II, must be held accountable for the renewed Abudu and Andani chieftaincy impasse in the area, as they accuse the Dagbon overlord of promoting divisions by filling up chieftaincy vacancies in Dagbon with only members of his Royal Andani Family.<\/p>\n<p>The youth explained that, the protest was sparked by the failure of the Yaa Naa to \u201cselect the right person for the area\u201d, despite a petition and, follow ups by elders and opinion leaders of the town.<\/p>\n<p>The youth, armed with deadly weapons and objects, have been protesting, since Sunday, against the decision of Yaa Naa to select chief of Voggu, Vo -Naa M. 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Bawah, as chief of the Nanton, against their Abudu favorite, Chief of Zosali, Zosali \u2013 Lana Haruna Sulemana Tia, who has already occupy the community, receiving homage from lower chiefs and being protected by members of the town.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh unrest has escalated as the youth continue to block the Vo \u2013 Naa\u2019s entry into the community and been compounded by the refusal of the Yaa \u2013 Naa to pander and rescind his decision.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute is gradually fledgling into the scourging Lonstandig Abudu and Andani division, which has ravaged Dagbon until just recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The development in Nanton has rightly compelled the Committee of Eminent Kings led by the Asante King, Otumfou Osei Tutu II to convey a meeting this Saturday, in a desperate intervention to safeguard the Dagbon Roadmap Peace Plan which they spent arduous years to broker.<\/p>\n<p>However, ahead of that crucial meeting, the implacable youth of Nanton held a press conference Friday to inform the world of their position and expectation on the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies and gentlemen, we start by indicating to the whole world that, prior to the funeral of the late Nanton Naa Alhaji Sulemana, a petition was written to the overlord of Dagbon followed by a delegation to his palace\u201d, spokesman of the youth, Abdulai Salifu Maqthadar read a prepared speech, under a mango tree outside the compound of the Zosali Lana\u2019s private house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mission was simple\u201d, he says, adding: \u201cWe indicated that, for the sake of of peace in the Nanton Traditional Area in particular and Dagbon at large, there was the need for serious research and consultations to be done to select a chief who shall be accepted by all. We did indicate that, failure to select the right person for the area could set a stage for deadly crisis\u201d, the youth explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurprisingly, they continue, \u201call issues that were raised that were put before the overlord in that petition had been overlooked\u201d,recounting further that, \u201cit was a great shock to all the elders and people of Nanton when we got the news that, it was the Vonaa who was appointed to be the next Nanton Naa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They have therefore vowed \u201cto fight to the last drop of their blood to prevent the entry of Vonaa into the traditional area as the new chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justifying their unflinching stance, the youth said, \u201cFirstly, all the elders, sub-chiefs, opinion leaders and all the people of Nanton Area do not accept Vonaa as chief of Nanton\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They also alleged that, four out of the five traditional paramountcies comprising the Nanton District, are already occupied by chiefs from the Andani Royal Family, therefore, giving Nanton to Vonaa, also an Andani royal, \u201cwill mean all the paramountcies have been taken up by the Andanis to the disadvantage of the Abudus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Nanton youth also absolved the Zosali Lana who has been accused by the Gbewa Palace of sponsoring the ongoing protest in the area, saying, he has \u201cno hand whatsoever in the current happenings in Nanton\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the youth declared, they have resolved not to accept any other person as the chief of Benton except the Zosali Lana Alhaji Haruna Tia Sulemana, adding, they could sense \u201culterior motive\u201d in the appointment of Vonaa as chief of the predominantly Abudus Nanton, since gate skins in Dagbon that are predominantly Andanis are not usually contested by Abudus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor everlasting peace to prevail in the Nanton Traditional Area, we plead with the overlord of Dagbon to give us an Abudu chief, preferably, the Zoosali Lana Alhaji Haruna Tia Sulemana\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 6 April 2019 Source: asempanews.com 2019-04-06 Yaa-Naa Mahama Abukari II Protesting youth of Nanton in the Northern Region have said the Yaa Naa Abukari Mahama II, must be held accountable for the renewed Abudu and Andani chieftaincy impasse in the area, as they accuse the Dagbon overlord of promoting divisions by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Yaa Naa promoting divisions in Dagbon; 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