Kwahu Tafo (E/R), Jan. 24, GNA- The Kwahu South District Security Committee (DISEC) has given all Fulani herdsmen, their families and herds of cattle two weeks to leave the Kwahu-Tafo area to prevent any confrontation with the people in the town.
The order was given at an emergency meeting of the DISEC at Mpraeso on Thursday, following a three-day demonstrations organized by the chiefs and people against the presence of the Fulani herdsmen over the shooting, stabbing and assaulting of three citizens of Kwahu Tafo for the past one month.
Two buildings belonging to one Sidi Bello, a Ghanaian from the Northern Region rented out to some Fulani herdsmen and their families were vandalized during the demonstrations while Alhaji Nagashi, a Funlani herdsman and his two children also got injured.
Speaking to Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Mpraeso on Friday, the Kwahu South District Chief Executive, Mr Raymond Osafo-Gyan, said last December, one Yaw Michael, a 35-year-old farmer at Aburaso, near Begoro in the Fanteakwa District and a citizen of Kwahu-Tafo, was reported to have been shot dead by a Fulani herdsman.
He said on January 16, this year, another Kwahu Tafo citizen, Kwame Badu, a fitting mechanic apprentice, was stabbed in the stomach when he challenged the son of a Fulani herdsman for defecating near the stream serving the town.
The DCE, who is also the Chairman of the DISEC said Badu was rushed to the Kwahu Government Hospital at Atibie, where he was operated upon and later referred to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for further treatment. He said during the funeral rites of Michael on January 17, another Kwahu Tafo citizen, Yaw Appeagyei, resident at Takoradi who was attending his mother's funeral was also stabbed on the forehead by a Funlani herdsman and was treated and discharged at the Kwahu Government Hospital at Atibie.
Mr Osafo-Gyan said the continuous attack on Kwahu Tafo citizens by the Fulanis infuriated the youth in the town armed themselves with offensive weapons and went round the town threatening to attack any Fulani they would come across in the area.
He said the Police had to dispatch a 20-member reinforcement team from Mpraeso and Nkawkaw to quell the demonstration. A spokesman of the demonstrators, Mr Yaw Boateng, said the youth would advise themselves if the Fulanis failed to leave the area by the end of the two-week ultimatum.
