GARIZEGU CHIEF’S MURDER TEN SUSPECTS APPEAR IN COURT

GARIZEGU CHIEF’S MURDER TEN SUSPECTS APPEAR IN COURT

Ten suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Naa Yakubu Andani, the chief of Garizegu in the Tamale Metropolis today Tuesday July 13 appeared in a Tamale District Magistrate Court.
The Garizegu Naa Yakubu Andani was murdered on the Tamale Nyankpala road by unknown assailants on March 22 and 51 suspects were arrested.
Fourty one out of the arrested suspects were later released with one suspect at large.
Mr. Gabriel Marte Teye presided over the case and adjourned it to Monday July 26 as a result of the prosecutor’s plea for enough time to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The presiding Judge before the court sitting warned that he was not going to spare any individual or group of individuals whose actions might have obstructed the judiciary process.
He recounted a guerrilla warfare that ensued between relations of the murdered chief and the accused persons after the last court sittings and said that untoward behavior was totally unacceptable.
There was heavy police presence led by the Tamale Metropolitan police Commander DSP Abanga Caesar to maintain law and order at the court premises.
Naa Yakubu Andani was murdered as a result of his enskinment by the Regent of Sagnarigu as the chief of the Garizegu community which Residents rejected his enskinment.
He was reported to have been murdered on his return from a satellite community near the Garizegu community after visiting a friend.
His murder resulted into the burning of several households and livestock in the Garizegu community.
The community turned into a ghost town and schools were closed for several months due to police search for the murderers.
But sources say there was a security alert for several weeks which fall into death ears before the gruesome incident happened at Garizegu.
The murder of the late Garizegu chief brought several blames on the Mayor of Tamale, Alhaji Haruna Abudualai Friday by residents for his negligence and he was nearly kidnapped and lynched at Sanarigu