Karaga NPP Chairman Freed

Police personnel escorting the suspects out of the court premises

The Karaga Constituency chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Tahiru Zakaria, and three others have been granted bail by the Tamale circuit court, presided over by William Twumasi.

The suspects, who made their maiden appearance at the court, were granted bail in an amount of GH¢5,000 each with two sureties.

Mr Tahiru Zakaria, with three others – Baba Ali Osman, Mohammed Alhassan and Abdullai Ziblim – was charged with rioting and causing unlawful harm.

When DAILY GUIDE visited the court, there was seeming tension as supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had gathered at the premises and over 50 police personnel stationed there to maintain law and order.

Some party bigwigs in the Northern Region were at the court to facilitate the bail process.

It will be recalled that the Karaga Constituency chairman was arrested with the three others on suspicion that they were among those who caused the commotion at Karaga at dawn Wednesday.

The arrest followed a directive by President Akufo-Addo to the police not to allow miscreants to take the law into their hands.

Some angry NPP youth in the Karaga District of the Northern Region sealed off the DCE’s office, chased away the Youth Employment Coordinator and set ablaze a motorbike.

They claimed that the DCE, Alhassan Yabdow, had said that he would never work in partnership with Tahiru Zakaria.

The youth accused the DCE of engaging in acts they believed would create divisions in the NPP in the constituency.

FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale

 

 

 

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