The Northern Regional Minister, Shani Alhassan Shaibu has urged residents of Zakoli, a suburb of Yendi to remain calm as the Police investigate the recent attack on them.

Speaking to residents a day after the attack, Alhaji Shani Alhassan Shaibu assured them that the law will deal with the perpetrators of the attack.

“I am appealing to the Fulani community who have been at the end of the suffering to exercise restraint. The law will grind slowly, but it will catch up with all the perpetrators. I know we are in a state of agony now,” the Minister said.

According to him, this heinous crime committed will not go unpunished, thus residents should cooperate with the Police and provide information for the arrest of the assailants.

“Much as we need the law to work, we need the cooperation of the local community here, because people here would have known at least one or two of the perpetrators that will serve as the lead for us to be able to unearth the reason for which this barbaric act was conceived and executed,” he noted.

Alhaji Shani Alhassan Shaibu said this when he met with the bereaved families on Thursday together with the Northern Regional Police Commander, the Yendi District Police Commander and the Yendi Divisional Police Commander.

He assured the bereaved families that the victims who died will be given a befitting burial.

On Tuesday, April 12, nine persons were killed in an attack at Zakoli, a suburb of Yendi.

Four others were also injured in the attack. Some homes were burnt while several properties were destroyed.

According to the community members, the development is a reprisal attack over a robbery incident on Tuesday, April 12 in which two people were killed at Zagbang on the Yendi Zabzugu road.

The injured persons are currently receiving treatment at the Yendi hospital and are in stable condition.

The nomadic herdsmen who were attacked in Zakoli have since been moved into the Dagomba communities in Yendi while security officers have been deployed to the Zakoli community.

Currently, no arrest has been made.