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Government says its priority is to seek justice as it investigates the death of the late King of Dagbon Yaa Naa Yakubu Andani II.
Currently, a court case is ongoing to bring to book suspects alleged to have killed the Dagbon king eight years ago.
Critics have accused government of reneging on a promise to set up another commission to set the records surrounding the murders straight.
Speaking on Joy FM’s current affairs program Newsfile, Deputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the possibility of another commission has not been totally ruled out.
Mr Ablakwa also dismissed suggestion that the recent arrest and subsequent prosecution of some persons allegedly linked to the murder of the late Ya-Na was a knee-jerk reaction.
According to him, security officials in Dagbon had to spend months to study the movements of suspects before the recent raid.
“What we must all remember is that we still have not found the perpetrators. Somebody out there or some people out there have escaped with a heinous crime such as murder, mutilation, multiple murders, arson, destruction of property…” he said.
“Justice hasn’t been secured, we have not found the perpetrators and we need to, as responsible citizens, be committed to this objective.”
The Dagbon crisis has been spawned by a complex mix of political, ethnic and economic factors which have become very difficult to surmount.
Kwame Jantuah, Deputy National Organiser of the Convention People's Party, urged a complete de-politicization of the issues, saying “this thing should be diffused and diffused because it is Ghana that is at stake here.”
Mr Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako, Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, who was also on the panel, said he suspected there was bias on the part of the security personnel in the arrest of the suspects.
“That is where my problem is: The selectivity that is informing the recent action by the security services, and for that matter, government. That is not going to bring about solutions,” he said.
“The selectivity in itself is problematic and will not help to bring about the solution so then I ask myself, what really the motive is. Does government intend to resolve this matter? If indeed government intends to resolve it why the lack of equity in its dispensation of justice,” Mr Baako asked.
Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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