Operation Cow Leg: E/R REGSEC withdraws security

The Eastern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has withdrawn all 120 security men deployed to the area in January in connection with the ‘Operation Cow Leg’ exercise to stave off further conflict between locals in five districts and Fulani pastoralists in the region.

Regional Minister Mavis Ama Frempong said Operation Cow Leg had been very successful and had brought peace to the area.

“With the intervention of the Operation Cow Leg, we got farmers having their freedom to go to their farms; their farms were not destroyed. We also did not record any casualties during the three-month period. When Operation Cow Leg was out there, no farmer lost his life, neither did a Fulani man lose his life during the operation. [On] the way forward, we are going to join National Security to ensure that the regions that are affected by Fulani herdsmen every year, we find a lasting solution to that,” the Minister assured.

She said this after a closed-door meeting of the regional, district, and municipal security councils in the region.

Meanwhile, the Acting Eastern Regional Police Commander, ACP James Abass Abaah, said the officers withdrawn will be monitoring the situation on the ground to control whatever may be simmering.

He told Class News: “We can say that everything is normal now. We do not have any serious matter concerning any of the issues discussed but that does not mean that they have vanished all of a sudden, but we are in a state of containment.

“Whatever problem is simmering on the ground, we have everything under control. As we said, the Operation Cow Leg has been successful. We have tactically withdrawn because the rains have set in and they have moved their cattle up north.”