FULANIS IN REPRISAL ATTACK-AGOGO DCE SUSPECTS

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The Asante Akyem North District Security Council is to petition the Ashanti Regional Security Council, REGSEC, to as a matter of urgency, provide the necessary support to the DISEC to effectively tackle what it considers as a new phenomenon of crime wave emerging within the Afram Plains portion of the district. 

The DISEC suspects that some of the aggrieved nomadic herdsmen who have been driven out of the district in recent security operations are embarking on a suspected reprisal attack on the residents by killing and maiming them.

 Speaking to Ashanti Today in Kumasi after an emergency DISEC meeting at Agogo today, Monday February 29, the Chairman of the DISEC, Paul Averu, who is also the District Chief Executive, said the two latest murder cases recorded at Abrewanko, one of the communities in the Plains, has not been linked to activities of the cattle. 

On the other hand, the unidentified assailants are believed to be Fulani herdsmen who at separate locations, demanded from their victims money before shooting the two persons to death, following their inability to provide the money. 

Mr. Averu said the assailants are being vigorously pursued by the security operatives to face justice. 

The DCE disclosed that a final operation to flush out the Fulani herdsmen and their cattle will begin tomorrow, 1st March, and indicated that latest by Friday, all the Fulani herdsmen and the remaining cattle within the Asante Akyem North district would have been successfully flushed out of the area.

 According to Mr. Averu, the DISEC noted also that already, the joint Police/Military Task Force deployed to the area about three weeks ago has been able to evacuate about 90 per cent of all the herdsmen and their cattle from the district.

 He indicated that in spite of the successes being chalked, the entire security taskforce will continue to be on the ground until further notice, adding that the DISEC has adopted a strategy that will ensure that neither the evacuated cattle nor new ones return to the district. 

This, he said is the only way to bring a lasting peace to enable the residents to go about their lawful activities. 

Mr. Averu noted that the operation of the security operatives have been boosted by the declaration and cooperation of the Agogo Traditional Council in the efforts at flushing out the herdsmen and their cattle from the area. 

The DCE asked for the total compliance and cooperation of the herdsmen to make the evacuation exercise a peaceful one.

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