By: Peter Agengre
A pickup vehicle belonging to the campaign team of the Member of Parliament for Binduri in the Upper East Region, Hon. Abdulai Abanga was burnt to ashes on Monday night. The said vehicle with registration number GX 4164-17 was packed in front of the house of the Binduri Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party Samuel Ayaago at Atuba.
When the Upper East Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih visited the incident scene at Atuba, he announced that the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) met and arrived at some measures to ensure sanity prevails in the area.
“We have seen what has happened and we want to tell the perpetrators that if it is their intention to scare people then they have failed. We are going to do everything within our means to ensure that within 48 hours the perpetrators are identified and arrested. We are going to deploy more security personnel to this area. That decision has already been taken and we are going to flood the Binduri area with more security personnel” Mr. Bin Salih hinted.
He also called on the public to support the police with information on any wrongdoing in the community.
“What we need is for you to volunteer with valuable information to enable the security to trace to get these miscreants arrested’’ he pleaded.
According to the constituency chairman, Mr. Samuel Ayaago, during the rains at about 9.20pm, three masked men on two motorbikes arrived at the scene and fired some gunshots in the air. The wife of the Mr. Ayaago and some women who were spotted at a provisions store close by were asked to lay down. They then poured some liquid believed to be fuel on the vehicle and fired guns shots at it.
The identity and motive of the perpetrators remain unknown but the vehicle adorned with the NPP Parliamentary candidate Abdulai Abanga is believed to be the target.
Meanwhile, Abduali Abanga who is also the Deputy Minister for Local Government visited the scene and has urged his supporters to remain calm and allow law enforcement agencies to apprehend the perpetrators.
