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Trouble In Paga: Chief Flees On Motorbike As Palace Is Burnt

By Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah
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Disaster nearly befell the chief of Navio, a community near the Paga border in the Upper East region, when some unidentified armed men attacked his palace on Thursday.

 

The chief, Pe Adams Kwarase, whose palace was set ablaze by gun firing and machete wielding assailants, had raced barefoot in a smock into the bush to save his life, leaving his family and property .

He spent some time searching for a way out of the bush before coming across one of his subjects riding a motorcycle nearby who offered to give him a ride to the Paga Police Station to lodge a complaint.

The real reason for the attack is not yet known but there has reportedly been a feud between the Navio Chief and the Paramount Chief of Paga, Pe Charles Awiah Awampaga II, for about half a decade now.

“It’s clear. That’s the Paga Chief. He sent them. His sons were there with the mob,” he affirmed, adding: “As at now, I don’t know where my family [is]. People are even saying that they have killed me; I’m in the mortuary currently. But I’m in the Navrongo District Police Commander’s office currently. I just managed to escape. It wasn’t easy at all", Pe Adams Kwarase said according to starrfmonline.

But some people in Paga are disputing these claims saying nobody from Paga was involved in the attack.

 

At least four persons have been taken into police custody and some severely injured as military and police detachments intensify patrols in the area.