The national president of the Mamprugu Students Union is pleading with government to come to the aid of residents of Lukula in the North-Gonja district who are still homeless and in severe hunger following violence there last month.

Hamidu Yahaya Kutule said public service delivery has not resume as the rains continue to worsen the state of the bad roads and keep the communities and residents trapped and isolated. 

Schoolchildren, according to him, have refused to go to school for fear of being attacked and women are suffering. 

"Women and children are suffering for the past three weeks and no government officials have visited the community to access the situation,” he said. 

The residents have been caught in the middle of an ethnic dispute between the Wasipewura of the Gonjas in Daboya in the Savanna Region and the So-Naaba of the Mamprusis at Janga in the West Mamprusi district of the North East Region. 

The dispute has recently escalated to involve the two powerful overlords of the tribes after a meeting with the Yagbonwura's delegation at Nalerigu ended inconclusively. 

The student leader called for an immediate stop to the unprovoked attacks and aggressions against residents in the area. 

"We are calling on government and Regional Security Council of Savanna Region to act quickly because if these unlawful acts should occur again, we fear for the peace we are enjoying," he said.

The Mamprugu Students Union also spoke condemned the recent arrest of a gang allegedly planning to smuggle guns to Walewale.