News:
February 8, 2018
Minority Chief Whip, Mohamed Muntaka Mubarak has called on Ghanaians to stop the practice of generalizing by calling Fulani herdsmen as criminals, who only kill rape and destroy farm lands of Ghanaians in areas they operate with their cattle.
He noted that most of the Fulani herdsmen pay money to chiefs to acquire lands in areas they operate for their cattle to graze.
According to the Asawase legislator, the association of Fulani herdsmen had organized a press conference and showed pictures of how the Fulani herdsmen are attacked and killed but nobody seems to care and talk about their plight.
And added that some youth of Agogo move into areas where the Fulani herdsmen have their cattle, they shot and slaughter them indiscriminately and sell them to chop bar operators.
“Are these Fulani herdsmen lesser of human beings, people go and shoot their animals indiscriminately the problem is we lamp the good and the bad herdsmen together”, he lamented.
He made this remarks on the floor of the House when the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Kwame Asafu-Adjei made a statement on the floor of the House recounting how activities of Fulani herdsmen in Agogo is creating insecurity.
Mr. Mubarak remarked that most of the Fulani herdsmen had leaved in Agogo for so many years and intermarried and they see themselves as Ghanaians.
The Minority Chief Whip who is into cattle farming noted that it is a good business and encouraged Ghanaians to take up the business to help augment the country’s meat demand. “And let us disabuse peoples mind from seeing people who move into cattle farming as criminals”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso /ghanamps.com