The Ghana Police Service has restored calm at Enchi in the Western North Region following a violent chieftaincy dispute resulted in the death of four people and the injury of another.

Also, security has been beefed up in the palace, Enchi township and surrounding communities. 

Investigation is ongoing and crime scene experts and reinforcement teams have been dispatched from the national headquarters in Accra and surrounding Police Regions to support the Western North Regional Police Command.

In light of the aforementioned happenings, Police is “urging the public, in this case, our revered chieftaincy institution which is the embodiment of our customs, traditions and values, to use peaceful and due judicial process in resolving differences in order to avoid such needless deaths.”

“We will surely get the perpetrators of this violent attack arrested to face justice,” the Police has assured.