Elephants invade Zogpiell Electoral Area

Elephants are reported to have invaded a number of communities in the Zogpielle Electoral Area in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region and are causing serious destruction to crops.

The animals, believed to have migrated from neighbouring Burkina Faso, are said to have destroyed rice, maize, millet, guinea corn, sorghum and groundnuts, the cultivation of which is the main source of income for the people.

Mr Gregory B. Pecks, Assembly member for the area said at the third ordinary meeting of the second session of the Lawra District Assembly at Lawra, that the presence of the mammals in the area was also a threat to human life.

He appealed to the assembly to use all means to control the elephants numbering about 15, or take steps to drive them back to Burkina Faso.