Editorial (The Daily Searchlight, Wednesday, 20th April, 2022)
The eight Fulani herdsmen killed at Zakoli, a community in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, have been buried in Tamale.
The bodies of the deceased were removed from the Tamale Teaching Hospital Mortuary where Islamic prayers were said after which they were transported to the cemetery for burial on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Malam Osman, Alhaji Baako, Yahaya Jallo, Kadiru Jallo, Umar Jallo, Haruna Jallo, Saibu Wubi, and an unknown person.
Last Wednesday, April 13, some unknown persons besieged Zakoli, a nomadic settler community, and killed eight persons.
Four other people sustained gunshot injuries and have been receiving treatment at the Yendi Government Hospital.
Thatch-roofed houses, food crops and motorbikes were also destroyed.
It is not clear what triggered the attacks, but the Ghana News Agency gathered that it may be a possible retaliation to an earlier robbery attack, during which a teacher at Zagbang on the Yendi – Zabzugu Road, was killed.
The Daily Searchlight believes that it is time Ghana made a real effort at proper policing within our communities. We also believe that the time has come for Ghana to make a realistic attempt at creating a judiciary that is responsive to the needs of the time and that can engender confidence in the society.
If and when Ghana is able to create a proper police and judiciary, it would dissuade individuals from taking the law into their own hands and seeking to avenge crimes.
A proper police service would be secured by good intelligence and investigatory system, and a good judiciary should be able to deal with matters expeditiously so as to assure victims that they State has their interest at heart.
We console the families of all those dead and injured, and we hope that the police would endeavour to bring the culprits to justice in record time.
(This article was first published in the column EDITORIAL of the Daily Searchlight of Wednesday, 20th April, 2022. The Daily Searchlight appears on the newsstands of Ghana every working day and for sale online twenty-four hours a day all day throughout the world on www.ghananewsstand.com).
