The government has warned that the Member of Parliament for Bimbilla will be arrested if violence breaks out in Bimbilla. Dominic Nitiwul had said that tensions were rising in the Northern Regional town between Kokombas and Nanumbas – two ethnic groups with a history of bloody confrontations. According to the MP, the tensions have been precipitated by the arrest, detention and subsequent trial of a 26-year-old Kokomba man who allegedly injured a Nanumba man. He warned that the situation could degenerate if measures were not put in place to squelch any immediate causes of an escalation. But a Deputy Minister of Information, Mr James Agyenim-Boateng has said the MP’s comments were not only reckless but amounts to inciting violence while the Police in the Northern Region have also denied Mr Nitiwul’s claims that tensions were rising in the Bimbilla area. “I regret to say that the pronouncement from the honourable Member of Parliament, Dominic Nitiwul clearly is one that constitute incitement, it is intended to incite the people of the area to breach the peace and I have said in very clear and unambiguous words that the state security authorities are watching and are following his pronouncements,” Agyenim-Boateng. He emphasized that “if the peace in that area is breached, honourable Dominic Nitiwul will be answerable for that.” Mr Agyenim-Boateng asserted that the Bimbilla MP’s comments were “calculated at stifling the judiciary from doing its lawful duties.” Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana