UPDATE ON TAFO VIOLENCE

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   Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Security Council, REGSEC, Peter Anarfi-Mensah, has disclosed that the REGSEC has been holding peace dialogues with feuding factions are being held out of public view with the aim of speeding up the restoration of tranquility and safety to the Tafo township in the Kumasi metropolis.

 According to Mr. Anarfi-Mensah, who is also the outgoing Ashanti Regional Minister, the peace talks which are at the instance of the REGSEC, are being held with the parties involved in the conflict separately. 

The REGSEC as part of the efforts met the chief of Tafo, Nana Agyen Frimpong, at his palace yesterday where issues of how to restore peace to the township was discussed. 


Mr. Anarfi-Mensah told Radio Ghana in Kumasi that Nana Agyen Frimpong showed real commitment to the eventual restoration of peace. 

The REGSEC, he noted will continue to engage the remaining parties to achieve a lasting peace at Tafo. 

The REGSEC Chairman explained to Ashanti Today in Kumasi that the about 40 suspects who were arrested yesterday by the security operatives at Tafo attempted to re-launch attacks at Tafo. 

The suspects also attempted to attack the security operatives during the REGSEC members visit to Tafo. Their arrest was therefore on the orders of the REGSEC.

 Mr. Anarfi-Mensah disclosed further that apart from the 40 suspects who are in police custody being screened ahead of prosecution, REGSEC also has a video recording of the violence at Tafo last Wednesday in which some of the key actors have been identified and will be arrested very soon. 

Meanwhile, the morning after the second night of the curfew imposed on the Tafo showed that clam and peace are gradually returning to the town.

 There is also continuous heavy presence of security operatives at vantage points especially around the Palace to protect life and property there.  

 In a related development, Mr. Anarfi-Mensah has disclosed that another batch of a security Taskforce has been dispatched to Drobonso in the Sekyere Afram Plains district of the Ashanti region to protect the area against the invasion of nomadic herdsmen and their cattle from other areas.

The first Taskforce has already been sent to the Asante Akyem North district.





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