The lingering Bawku conflict has led to several lives lost with the area becoming unsafe to live in.
Addressing the press in parliament, convener of the 6 MPs Forum, Cletus Avoka demanded the Ministers of Defence and Interior investigate this incident and bring the perpetrators to book.
He said “The facts are that on Tuesday night i.e 31st January 2023, there was sporadic shooting in several parts of Bawku. These shootings however ceased by 6:00am yesterday.
“The Soldiers on peacekeeping decided to patrol as they normally do. Then they got to a suburb of Bawku called Zorgen and saw some young men working in their dry season garden.
“They rounded these unarmed and harmless men together, opened fire on them and killed six (6) of them instantly. They also chased a small boy who ran into a millet ban, but they still shot him in the ban, whereby the ban caught fire and burnt the boy to ashes.
“Similarly, they shot at a woman who was also in the vicinity and broke her hand. She is currently on admission. They had earlier last week also shot and killed two people at Patelmi. We submit that the killings by the Soldiers was uncalled for, it is barbaric and unprofessional.”
They added “We demand that: The Minister of Defence and the Minister for Interior investigate this incident and bring the unprofessional perpetrators to book. The good name of the military is being soiled by this unprofessional conduct. Compensate the victims’ families.