[ 2017-01-28 ]

Hon.Joseph Tetteh, MP for Upper Manya Krobo

MP calls for urgent address to Fulani herdsmen and farmers fracas
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Manya
Krobo in the Eastern Region, Hon.Joseph Tetteh has
called for lasting solutions to the nomadic Fulani
herdsmen menace which worsens during the dry
season.

According to the lawmaker, the situation is
worrying given that it leads to deadly clashes and
destruction of farms ploughed by farmers.
Communities such as Anyaboni resettlement area,
Aframase, Akateng, Poliwa, Terguanya, and other
farming communities in the Upper Manya Krobo
district are in standoff with Nomadic Fulani
herdsmen over destruction of large acres of farms
creating fear of food insecurity.

Assemblyman for Anyaboni Resettlement/Aframase
Electoral Area, Emmanuel Kwasi Laweh in an
interview with Ultimate news, appealed to the
National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO)
to come to the aid of the community by way
supplying food to ameliorate the plight of the
farmers as famine looms.

“Anyaboni is in serious food crisis, we are
appealing to NADMO to come to our aid, the Fulani
herdsmen have destroyed all farms in this area,
residents here have nothing to feed on which is a
disaster,” he said.
Peasant farmers in these communities affected by
the destructive activities of the Fulani herdsmen,
took EIB’s Eastern regional Correspondent Kojo
Ansah round large acres of cassava, maize,
groundnut, pepper, beans and okro farms pastured
by cattle of the nomadic herdsmen.

Speaking to Ultimate News on the development on
Saturday, the MP saddened by the situation, hinted
plans to hold stakeholder meeting involving the
security in the affected communities to remedy the
problem.
He suggested that Fulani Herdsmen must be
compelled to compensate farmers whose farms have
been destroyed.

Meanwhile, farmers in the Anyaboni area and Fulani
herdsmen are expected to meet the Regional Police
Commander on Monday January 30, 2016.

Source - ultimatefmonline.com

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