National Chief Imam Calls For Truce In Hohoe Clashes

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The National Chief Imam Sheikh Nuru Shaributu is appealing to Muslims in the Volta Region especially those in the Hohoe municipality to exercise restraint as security personnel in the region attempts bringing to an end a two-day ethnic violence that has so far claimed two lives.

 

The unrest at Hohoe on Monday has also resulted in the imposition of a curfew.

 

Violence erupted over the weekend following the exhumation of the body of a Chief Imam, Alhaji Alhassan ostensibly on the orders of the Chief of the town, Togbe Gabusu.

 

Sheikh Shaributu was said to be very worried about the events.

 

The National Chief Imam expressed the fact that the exhumation of the Chief Imam’s body was, especially since Alhaji Alhassan was a father figure for many middle-aged Muslims in the Hohoe municipality.

 

The unfortunate incident occurred when the body of the deceased Muslim Imam was exhumed from his grave by indigenes of Hohoe. This development however angered Muslim youth who went on rampage and set ablaze two vehicles, a palanquin belonging to the paramount chief of the Gbi Traditional Area, Togbega Gabusu.

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