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“Ranches being established to solve Fulani Menace” – President Akufo-Addo

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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is establishing ranches in some parts of the country, aimed at finding an amicable, lasting solution to the “Fulani herdsman” menace.<br />
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According to the President, “everybody in this country has been very disturbed by the activities of ‘Fulani herdsmen’. We hear about the fights that have been going in different parts of the country Ashanti, Volta Region, Eastern Region. They are very disturbing. Therefore, finding a solution is one of the big concerns of my government.”<br />
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President Akufo-Addo made this known on Wednesday 14th March, 2018, when a delegation from the National Council of Fulani Chiefs in Ghana paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House, in Accra.<br />
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Making reference to the work undertaken by the 2nd President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, and his government, in resolving the issue of the herdsmen, President Akufo-Addo lamented the discontinuation of the work by successive governments.<br />
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“But, we (NPP) are back, and we are determined to find a solution. We want to have a solution that will protect everybody, the herdsmen, their cattle and the communities in which they work. Because, if we do not have that understanding, having to work together becomes very difficult,” the President said.<br />
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He, nonetheless, commended the Chiefs for their sense of responsibility, adding “you have shown yourselves to be Chiefs who are responsible for their people and their communities.”<br />
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Continuing, President Akufo-Addo said he was “very encouraged by the offer of the taskforce, that we work together through your community and with the law enforcement agencies to make sure that anybody who wants to misbehave is appropriately dealt with as the law prescribes.”<br />
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The President requested that some of the Chiefs from the Fulani National Council be made part of the Joint Committee, under the Ministry of Agriculture, that is seeing to the establishment of Kraals.<br />
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“This will ensure that we are a co-operative that can go about making sure that, in future, we have peace,” he added.<br />
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On his part, Alhaji Idriss, spokesperson for the Council of Fulani Chiefs, expressed gratitude to the President for the invitation, which, according to them, is the first time any President has met the Chiefs and leadership of Fulanis in Ghana, to deliberate on issues that affect the security of Ghana.<br />
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He expressed worry about the loss of lives and properties in areas where there has been confrontations between Fulanis and the community.<br />
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He said the “continued occurrence and re-occurrence of the confrontations between nomadic herdsmen and crop farmers and other crimes that has been associated with Fulani and the Fulani ethnic groupings is giving us sleepless nights. These activities have portrayed the Fulani in a very negative light, thus, making it look like the Fulani community is in conflict with Mother Ghana. We do not support these blatantly criminal activities”.<br />
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He, however, appreciated the effort thus far by government to ensure peaceful co-existence with Fulanis.<br />
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Concluding, the National Council of Fulani Chiefs pledged to co-operate with Government to ensure peaceful co-existence in Ghana.<br />
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Source: GhanaPa.com

“Ranches being established to solve Fulani Menace” – President Akufo-Addo

Fulani herdsmen with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is establishing r...

Bullion van heist: We feel vindicated - Fulanis

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Fulanis living in the Afram Plains North district of the Eastern Region have expressed their delight with the arrest of the alleged perpetrators of Tuesday’s failed robbery of a bullion van at Maame Krobo, saying they feel exonerated after being stereotyped for years as criminals.<br />
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The incident involved an attack on a GCB Bank bullion van transporting cash from Nkawkaw to the Afram Plains on August 16 at Maame Krobo, with the driver of the van being shot dead by assailants. But the heist was foiled and two police officers and a civilian have been arrested subsequently for investigation.<br />
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The pastoralists have, however, stated that the fact that none of the culprits identified was of Fulani ethnicity was some proof that they had all along been wrongly accused of being behind armed robberies in the Afram Plains.<br />
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The Fulani have often been in the news for the wrong reasons, having clashed with locals on several occasions for setting their cattle into communal water sources and indigenes’ farms to drink and graze. Such conflicts have usually culminated in the shooting to death or rape of indigenes who confront such nomadic herdsmen.<br />
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In recent times, the transhumant Fulanis have also been fingered for highway robberies in the Afram Plains and in other parts of the country where they have a considerable presence.<br />
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But speaking to Accra News on Friday August 19, a Fulani elder at Donkorkrom, Mallam Idrissa Sambo, said Fulanis in the town would be meeting to schedule a demonstration against the police.<br />
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According to him, the policemen and civilian arrested after the attempted robbery had disguised themselves in caftans complete with native Fulani footwear hewn from spent lorry tyres to commit the criminal act, and felt that had the three men pulled it off, it would have only reinforced the perception that Fulanis in the Afram Plains had to be blamed for rising crime in the area.<br />
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We’ve always been unhappy [about the accusations against us] but today is a happy one because God has exposed the falsehood that it is the Fulanis [who have been involved in armed robberies in the Afram Plains]. There is no truth in all that; they (the police) were the ones committing such acts and blaming it on Fulanis.<br />
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He further stated such untrue allegations had defamed all persons of Fulani across the country. “But now Ghanaians will know we are not responsible for the robberies,” he noted.<br />
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Mr Sambo added that they would meet and decide on a date to hit the streets in a demonstration against police prior to going to court, assuring that they would restrain their tribesmen from attacking any policeman in the area.<br />
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Fulanis living in the Afram Plains North district of the Eastern Region have expressed their delight with the arrest of the alleged perpet...