The government has condemned the enskinment of a new Bawku Naba at Nalerigu on Wednesday, February 15.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Information said Naa Asigri Azoka II is still the Bawku Naba.
Naa Bohugu Mahami, the king of the Maprugu Traditional Area On February 15 at the Nayiri Palace in Nalerigu, I reportedly enskinned Alhaji Seidu Abagre as the new chief for Bawku.
However, the government issued a statement denouncing the conduct and ordering the security to arrest anyone who professes to be such.
The government declared that the reported enskinment of a new Bawku Naba in Nalerigu on February 15, 2023, was illegal and a threat to national security.
Additionally, the government affirms that Naa Asigri Azoka II is the Bawku Naba, properly gazetted, and a member of the National and Upper East Regional House of Chiefs.
The document said, "Therefore, the security agencies have been directed to apprehend and prosecute any other person who holds himself out as Bawku Nana."
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