The Upper East Students Union (UPESU), of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has called on government, to arrest and prosecute suspected opinion leaders, allegedly, behind the supply of weapon in the Bawku conflict.
They also urged the youth in Bawku to denounce violence and that their unwillingness to forgive one another has created a fertile ground for opportunistic politicians to divide them further.
These were contained in a press release, issued in Winneba on Saturday, signed by the President of the Union, Mr Moses Bampil Badeabo and copied to the Ghana News Agency.
The release urged the youth to stop the violence, "otherwise they cannot be justified on their call on Ghanaians to pray for them or government for development, and that conflicts and development are diametrically opposed to each other".
The union further called on President John Evans Atta Mills to come out in the shortest possible time with a white paper on the Bawku Paramountcy.
According to them, during their peace mission to Bawku about four months, ago, both the Kusaasis and the Mamprusis were very expectant on the position of President Mills on the matter in Bawku.
They said "President Mills met the leaders of both sides in Bolgatanga last year where he collected documents from both sides and promised to state the government's stand on the Bawku chieftaincy issue".
"They contended that the delay on the part of the President to come clear on the matter is creating tension and suspicion".
The Union also appealed to the management of the Ghana Commercial Bank, Agricultural Development Bank and the Barclays Banks in Bawku to reconsider their decision to suspend services in the Municipality.
They said most government workers, especially teachers in and around the Bawku, collect their salaries from these banks, adding that, the temporal suspension of services would affect them greatly, since they would have to travel all the way to Bolgatanga to transact business.