President Mills asked to prosecute Ya-Na, Former CPP Chairman Killers now - CJA
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot

Accra, April 21, Ghanadot - The Committee for Joint Action (CJA), a leading pressure group in Ghana, which has its memberships across all the political divide in the country has vehemently has called on the President H.E John Evans Atta Mills administration to arrest and prosecute the killers of the former Paramount Chief of Dagbon, Ya Na Yakubu Andani II and his 40 sub-chiefs.

The group also called for the prosecution of the killers of the late Issah Mobila, a former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP).

CJA maintains that the perpetrators of the crime are still alive and must be smoked out as soon as possible so as to bring lasting peace among the feuding parties in the area.

The CJA, which has most of its members belonging to the ruling party, at a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, chronicled a number of demands which it said the government must immediately address.

A leading member of the pressure group, Mr Bernard Mornah, disclosed that the CJA organized the programme to announce its existence and warned that it would resist any policy that is not in the interest of the citizenry.

It is in this pursuit that it said government must not disregard calls to bring to book the killers of the former Dagbon, overlord and forty others.

Ya Na Yakubu Andani II was killed in 2002 in a feud between the Abudu and the Andani gates of the Yendi traditional area.

The CJA at the press conference also raised objection to the recent fuel price increases and appealed to the government to find ways and means to cushion the ordinary Ghanaians from the petroleum products price surge.

Mr Mornah said the group would resist any further increases in petroleum prices even if it were informed by price changes on the world market.

The Mills administration in March announced price appreciations of between 3 to 10 percent, weeks after announcing marginal drops in petroleum prices, a move critics described as unnecessary.

Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Kwabena Duffuor, had announced at the budget reading in parliament that the state would lose up to GH¢50 million as a result of the first drops in prices.

The CJA also called on the government to address the perennial water shortage confronting the capital city and other social needs of the people.

The pressure group is also seeking a review of the contract terms between the government of Ghana and telecoms operator, Vodafone which was signed in 2008 by the previous government.

The UK based telecom giant has a 70 percent stake in the telecommunication company.

Ghanadot