*A POSSIBLE KUSAA PRESIDENT OF GHANA AND BAWKU CONFLICT RESOLUTION*
Your question can be paraphrased as: if a Kusaa were the President of the Republic of Ghana, how would he or she solve the current Bawku Conflict?
The answer to this question is not straight forward one. It depends on which Kusaa we shall be dealing with as President of Ghana. To me, at least there are five types of Kusaas in the Kusaug Kingdom. These types are the nationalists, the conformists, the "passivists", the surrogates, and the idiots.
The nationalists, such as John Ndebugre and Joe Abanga, will use all the powers and means available to them to ensure that Kusaas gain their total emancipation and to take control of their resources and destinies. This group will use the available Security apparatuses in Ghana to surgically execute their agenda of self rule and self determination. They will also equip and enable Kusaas to subdue the Mamprusis and their allies in Bawku for sake of sovereignty in the Kusasi State. Extreme nationalists will resort to the Nkrumah's formula of permanent solution - resettle the Mamprusis and their allies in Northern Region. This would have cleaned Bawku of daydreamers, usurpers and troublemakers.
The conformist Kusaas will encourage the Kusaas to resort to the use of the available institutions in Ghana and beyond - courts, National and Regional Houses of Chiefs, human rights organisations, embassies, etc - to deal with the Bawku conflict. Whatever comes out of the process would be accepted by him or her, no matter how that would hurt the Kusaas. In order words, the conformist Kusaa President trusts and invests in the designated institutions to solve the Bawku conflict. This method of conflict resolution is enduringly frustrating, but slightly subjective with tinted biases. The possible solution will smother under the ash and has the high potential to regenerate in future.
The passivist Kusaa President will not care about the Bawku conflict. All petitions, complaints and condemnations will be pushed under the carpet. He or she will not mind whether the Bawku conflict is solved or not. The Kusaas will lose confidence in him or her and resort to survival and coping strategies, like we are currently experiencing. Amongst the passivist Kusaas, are those that are ignorant about the Bawku issue and don't care to know very well its nuances. There are so many examples of passive Kusaas in public, civil and the political space. And being Presidents of Ghana will not transform them overnight to become active performers. The braver and more strategically determined Mamprusis will continue to attack Kusaas. Passive Kusaas constitute a large proportion of Kusaas in the Universal set of Kusaas.
Surrogate Kusaas are those who worked with the Mamprusis or served their interests before. They are the loyalists to the Mamprusis. They and their people are available in their numbers waiting in the shadows, like hyenas, to pick the carcasses of Kusaas' defeat. Chief Musah Agatoni of Bugri and Simon Akparibilla Apiidogo were examples of surrogates that felt Kusaas could not and/or should rule themselves. A surrogate Kusaa President will take Kusaas back to Nayeri (Nalerigu) and seek to consolidate the so-called superiority of the Kusaas. The conflict will not end, but Kusaas will be at the extreme mercy of the national security, and under the sufferance of Mamprusis once against.
The last, but not the least, type are the idiots. They don't care how the Bawku conflict is solved as long as they continue to make huge fortunes from the status quo. An idiot Kusaa President would sell the sovereignty of Kusaug to the highest bidder. No matter how the Kusaas will feel, the idiot will tack along the sail until his/her granary and luck are full. He or she will play on the sensibilities of both sides of the divide, but ultimately reaping handsome, undeserved fortunes.
The question about how a Kusaa President would have solved the Bawku problem appears, conclusively, to be intriguing. This is so because there are many variants of Kusaas, sometimes with their amalgams forming a good set. Kusaas, like any group of people seeking to defend the sovereignty, are segmented into nationalists, conformists, passivists, surrogates, and idiots.
Nationalists by their nature are patriots. A nationalist Kusaa President will solve the problem using the available means to him or her. His or solution will be clinical and sustainable. Unfortunately, in the Bawku case, the nationalists amongst Kusaas are currently few, but increasing semi-exponentially, thanks to the youth.
The conformist Kusaa President will rely on institutional discretion, throwing the final solution to the game of chances. The probability that Kusaas will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the finally proffered solution would be suspiciously low, but itchy. His or her solution will be unsustainable in the long-run. A conformist President is likely to be tainted with Western ideals with rigid absorption rate.
A passive Kusaa President will try to sit on the fence. He or she is apathetic, ignorant, carefree and a pseudo activist with "reservinist" appetite. The passivists are not necessarily introverts. But they need to see specialists in mind games all the time.
A surrogate Kusaa President will drive the fat of Kusaas under the water. He or she will drive and shepherd Kusaas back to Nayeri with determined force for sacrificial profiling. Illusionary attempts shall be made by the Mamprusis, through legislation and brute force, to subdue, dominate and subjugate Kusaas once again. A Kusaa will fight a Kusaa in Kusaug villages and towns because of chieftaincy and land. The Bawku conflict will escalate to armed insurgents and suicide bombings by patriotic Kusaas who refuse to be demeaned.
If the President is a Kusasi idiot, he or she will not solve the Bawku conflict. The status quo will be maintained in order for him or her reap the maximum benefits of his reign. He or she will be pretentious and kleptomaniac. The Kusaas will neither benefit nor lose.
This is the theoretical model equation with, at least, five dependable variables and a large stoichastic error. The solution set to this equation is unfortunately not guess-strapped. A Kusaa President, except the surrogate, will be smeared with operational quagmire. If in doubt, ask Hon. Stephen Yakubu, the current Upper East Regional Minister. He is a fused nationalist and a conformist.
In the end, it is nationalist Kusaas who must think, plan and operate strategically. Let us pray Kusaas get a President of Ghana soon, but of course, a true nationalist. Note that the probability is twenty percent achievable for such a chance to occur, even if 100% of Ghanaians vote to make a Kusaa President of Ghana.
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