Wa: Calm gradually returning following unrest after the public flogging of sex tape victims
The Wa Municipal Assembly has revealed that calm has finally been restored in the area which was recently fraught with insecurity issues due to the flogging of a young man and woman in public for having sex and leaking the video on social media.
This was after three key suspects in the matter and the other 13 persons involved in an attack on the regional police headquarters were granted bail.
On the back of this, Alhaji Issahaku Tahiru Moomen, the Municipal Chief Executive, says “there is every positive indication that this issue is virtually coming to an end, especially the aspect of rioting and vandalization in town.”
The Wa circuit court granted bail to all the three persons suspected to have been involved in the flogging. It also called for the release of some 13 others who were alleged to be among some rampaging youth group that engaged in a riot to demand the release of the persons initially arrested.
Speaking on the latest development, Alhaji Issahaku Tahiru Moomen indicated that calm is gradually returning.
“The security agencies are doing what they can do, and that court has taken its preliminary decision on the matter and the Municipal Assembly is talking to the youth to calm nerves so that, there will be no relapse in any security arrangement that is put in place,” he noted.
All those who have been granted bail are set to reappear in court on Monday, June 13, 2022.
The three suspects initially arrested have been identified as Sidiki Osman, Bushiran Khigir and Issahaku Mahama.
