3rd July, 2003 Fellow countrymen and women, rich and poor, young and old, bootlicking loyalists and loud-mouthed opponents, at long last I have visited Dagbon. Yes, they booed and jeered at me in Tamale and so what? I went there and I am glad I have shamed all those who thought I will never gather the courage to visit Dagbon.
Shame on Ahadzo, the whip who tried so unsuccessfully to lash at me for failing to visit Dagbon when he wanted me to. In fact, going to Dagbon was not on my itinerary when I set out to attend funeral of the Mamprugu Naa. You know that Naa Gamni Mahama Abdulai was one of the three eminent chiefs I selected to help clean up the minds of the Dagbon people and pump into their heads the fact that the killings will not take them anywhere.