The Paramount Chief of the Buipe traditional area, Buipe-Wura Jinapor II, has advised the youth of Buipe to exercise maximum restraint and ensure peace prevails in the traditional area.
The Buipe-Wura made this call following persistent demands and agitations from a section of the youth that people of Fulani extraction currently residing at Mande, a suburb of Buipe, are forcibly ejected from their homes.
According to the Paramount Chief, Buipe was the only place “we call home,” adding, “it is incumbent on all of us, particularly our youth to protect this home and make it [a] safer place for all of us irrespective of [our] tribal affiliation so we continue to enjoy our everyday lives without threats or intimidations.”
It will be recalled that a section of the youth led by one Issah Alhassan and YahayaRazackboth natives of Buipe held a press briefing insisting the indigenes can no longer coexist with the Fulani community threatening to forcibly eject them if their call is not heeded.
The threats from the youth comes on the heels of an allegation that the Buipe-Wura has installed a Fulani man as a traditional chief of Buipe, but the allegation has been swiftly dismissed by the Buipe palace insisting that on the contrary, a Gonja royal known as Mr. AbdulaiAlhassan (from the Chinchako gate) was rather enskined as the substantive chief of Mande.
In an earlier statement from the Buipe Traditional Council, the Youth Chief of the Buipe Palace, Chief Shansudeen Kibasibe raised serious concern over the threat by the youth group to invade the Buipe palace on Sunday, December 18, 2022 if their demands are not met. The statement further noted that nobody of Fulani extraction has been enskinned as a traditional chief contrary to the misinformation being peddled by the group.
Information gathered by The Chronicle indicates that all attempts by the Regional Minister and elders of the community to persuade the group from their threats had fallen on deaf ears.The Buipe palace has, however, insisted that the Buipe-Wura cannot take the law into his own hands and forcibly eject Fulanis, who have coexisted peacefully with indigenes for decades.
Chief Jinapor has reiterated his call for peace and mutual cooperation amongst all the tribes in Buipe, adding that is the surest way to economic development.
