A group calling itself the Bawku Youth Development Association has accused security commanders in the area of being bias and has called for their immediate withdrawal. The group said the manner in which the security agencies are handling the conflict involving the Mamprusis and the Kusasis in the area is not helping issues, citing the recent killing of two men in Bawku. The group did not understand why only Mamprusis were arrested following some disturbances leading to deaths, arguing that one of the dead was a Mamprusi who could not have been murdered by fellow Mamprusis. Leader of the group, Awudu Razak Wuni, told Joy News on Monday that at the time the victim was shot, there were some security men around but they refused to respond to their calls for help and rather showed up later to make some worrying comments, which suggested that they were taking sides. He called on government to ensure that the police and other security details to the area are thoroughly screened to ensure that they have no links with Bawku. He also suggested that security personnel in the area should be changed on a regular basis since their long stay in the area has the tendency to make them susceptible to taking sides. Mr Razak Wuni said personnel who have served in the area before should not be re-posted to Bawku. The group also called on the president to call his spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga, to order since his comments concerning issues in the area rather tend to aggravate matters. Meanwhile, the Interior Minister Cletus Avoka has dismissed some of the allegations by the group as unfortunate. He however agreed with them on the need to regularly change security personnel in the area. “Experience has shown that any security operatives who is firm on the ground and who is doing his work to the best of his capability, some faction has for one reason or another has to complain about bias or about taking sides; that is the problem with Bawku.” The Minister further noted: “The problem is that people in Bawku have lived in a culture of impunity for too long, they commit all types of atrocities, arson and murders etc and think nobody should talk about it and they think that they are untouchable.” He suspected that some residents of Bawku are crying foul because the government has intensified its quest to bring the law to bear on “criminals and bandits” in the area. Mr Avoka warned that there would not be peace in the area if the government is pressurized to remove effective security officers from the area but stressed that personnel who dabble in the conflict would be dealt with. He said available information to him indicates that all the 33 persons that were rounded up during the recent murder of two men in Bawku have been released because it was realized that they were not involved in the killing. Story by Isaac Essel/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana