Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to open diplomatic channels with Burkina Faso’s military authorities in order to locate and return seven residents of the Bador and Tampizua communities in the Bawku Municipality.
Ayariga said in a statement on Wednesday that the seven individuals, who are thought to have been apprehended by the Burkinabe military, had crossed into the Bittu District of Burkina Faso to claim their livestock after being led there.
This was in response to an alleged attack on nomadic herders grazing the missing men’s animals.
Abdulai Bagre, Mumuni Seidu, Issaka Nyikabo, Abu Kadir Salifu, Jebrilu Braimah, Bande Mamudu, and Bande Shaibu are the seven males.
Ayariga stated that he had already requested that top Ghanaian military troops examine the subject, but that all attempts had been futile.
He also stated that he had contacted former Burkina Faso members of the ECOWAS Parliament, but had received no good responses.
“I hereby formally write to seek your assistance to locate and secure the release and return to Ghana seven residents of the communities of Bador and Tampizua in Bawku Municipality who are believed to have been arrested by the military authorities in Burkina Faso and despite every effort we have been unable to locate them and secure their return back to Ghana,” Ayariga wrote in the statement.
