FOUR HELD FOR KILLING CATTLE AT AGOGO

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Security operatives in the Asante Akyem North district in the Ashanti region have arrested four persons for allegedly shooting to death some cattle they came across within the district.

 The suspects are Samuel Asindo, 30, Naagoe Njondwe, 35, Issahaku Maa-Mohammed, 32, and Abubakarri Nanji, 34 years.

 According to the Head of the Public Affairs Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, ASP Yusif Mohammed Tanko, the suspects are in Police custody and helping the Police with their investigations. 

According to ASP Tanko, the suspects were arrested at about 10 am last Mondday and will be arraigned before court as soon as investigations are complete. 

Meanwhile, the Agogo Youth Association, AYA, has expressed reservations about the operations and intentions of the joint security Taskforce deployed to protect the people of Asante Akyem Agogo against the deadly activities of the nomadic herdsmen. 

A statement jointly signed by the Chairman, Emmanuel Buabeng and the Secretary, Alfred Gyimah, and issued to the media in Ashanti, noted that "instead of pitching their camp within the villages and communities where the herdsmen have been identified to be killing and raping the residents as well as burning large tracks of crop farms and plantations, members of the Taskforce are rather staying in a Guest House at Agogo", the district capital. 

This, the Association notes with concern, is rather bringing serious financial pressure on the limited revenue of the Asante Akyem North District Assembly.

 The statement believes also that deployment of the Security Taskforce is only part of the yearly ritual in the dry season meant to protect the Fulani herdsmen so that they will not be harmed. 

It said, even though the Acting IGP could not keep to his assurance of flushing the harmful herdsmen from the area while he served as the Director-General of Operations of the Police Service, they have given the security operatives the benefits of the doubt this time around. 

The Association therefore has recommended that the Taskforce pitch their camps within the areas where the atrocities are usually committed, include all the stakeholders in the operations towards evacuation of the Fulani and their cattle and also demands that the Taskforce gives the people of Agogo a timeline for the completion of the complete evacuation process.

 The Agogo Youth Association is also asking the security operatives to be fair in implementing the Kumasi High Court order that the Fulani herdsmen and their cattle be sent away from the Agogo stool lands.

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