Supporters of feuding NPP executives at the Karaga constituency in Northern region on Tuesday night vandalized party properties and later stormed the police station to free two suspects.
The violence started Monday afternoon with an attack on the Youth Employment Coordinator who doubles as the constituency youth organizer, Mohamed Baba, over the appointment of some youth into the security service.
The party executives in the Karaga constituency are sharply divided and tension has escalated since the DCE for the area took office.
The DCE, the Organizer, and the youth organizer have been accused by the constituency chairman and the other executives of hijacking the party in the area and taking unilateral decisions.Â
Narrating the cause of the current uproar, the constituency secretary, Abdulai Ziblim told journalists that the current happening is as a result of the youth organizer's decision to handpick some youth into the security module under the agency without telling the constituency chairman, Tahiru Zakaria.
He added that the youth organizer refused to honour an invitation by the chairman to brief him on how those youth were selected and why many party youth were not part of the list.
The violence between supporters of the chairman and the youth organizer ensued in the afternoon when the chairman went to confront the organiser for turning down his summon.
Members of the party reportedly engaged themselves with objects in the open brawl.
According to him, a motorbike belonging to the Youth Employment director was seized and taken away by the supporters of the chairman.
However after the police restored order in the area, chaos broke again in the night when some soldiers allegedly acting upon the directives of the DCE stormed the town and arrested two supporters of the chairman.
The youth then allegedly mobilized themselves later that night and attacked the police station to free their colleagues.
Another 'free for all fight' broke out again at about 3 am between the feuding supporters when the two were successfully removed from the police cells.
One person was head-butted and is receiving treatment. The seized motorbike also suffered an arson attack and is condemned.
Starr Fm's Northern Regional Correspondent reported.