There is escalating tension at Okobeyeyie a farming community in the Nsawam Adoagyir municipality in the Eastern Region between farmers and Fulani Herdsmen.
The farmers are threatening to take the laws into their hands to attack and chase out the Fulani herdsmen from their land if the Municipal Security Council fails to do so.
They accused the Fulani herdsmen of destroying their farmlands with their cattle and issuing death threats to them.
The situation they say has created apprehension among farmers particularly women and children when going to the farm.
Addressing the media, Chief of the Community, Nana Opare Odei II said “the activities of Fulani herdsmen is causing a big trouble in the area township, this is because a lot of complaints have been made by farmers in the township about how the Fulani Herdsmen and their cattle have been destroying their farm products whereby whenever they try to approach these herdsmen they give them all kind of threatens and almost killed a farmer who approached them for the fact that their cattle have destroyed his product in his farm”.
Nana Opare Odei II also bemoaned the lack of speed ramps on the road which has led to an increase in fatal pedestrian knockdown of residents.
He, therefore, appealed to the Ghana Highways authorities to provide speed humps to reduce the road carnage’s in the area.
The Chief drew the government’s attention to an abandoned State Farms Land in the Community which was acquired in 1971 through Executive Instruments covering an approximate area of 4.86 square miles situated in the area which is being encroached leading to conflicts and chaos.
He said the government should return the land to the Chiefs if it is no more interesting.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
