Abetifi (E/R), Oct. 28, - Nine
Fulani herdsmen and some Kwahu farmers including; two brothers have been killed
at Dwerebeafe, Aboyan and Mpeamu in the Kwahu East District.
The killings occurred following a
clash between Fulani herdsmen and some Kwahu farmers in the bush of those
communities.
A farmer and a 12 year-old boy
are currently on admission at the Kwahu Government Hospital with gunshot
wounds.
The bodies of the dead, which had
been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary at Atibie for autopsy included;
Mahamadu Bahashi, 34, Molansu Osman, 33 and Bube Osman 23, all Fulani herdsmen.
The rest are; Sulley Yaw also
known as Yaw Kitiwa, 28, Kwesi Asiama, 45 and his brother Kwesi Boateng, 43.
The rest are yet to be
identified.
The Member of Parliament for the
Abetifi Constituency, Mr Bryan Acheampong disclosed this when he addressed an
emergency meeting of the Kwahu East District Assembly.
He said there had been series of
meetings and consultations between the chiefs, cattle owners, security
personnel and the Fulani herdsmen to find solution to the conflict between the
factions but to no avail.
He therefore advised the cattle
owners to send their cattle to the fodder Banks in the Afram Plains to ensure
peace in the area.
The MP who is also a Minister of
State in-charge of National Security said police re-enforcement had been
arranged from Accra to support the local security personnel to maintain peace
and order in the various communities.
According to Mr Solomon Aboagye,
the Assembly Member for the Hwehwee Electoral Area, he had a telephone call
three days ago from Mpeam near Hwehwee that the two brothers failed to return
from their farms that day and urged the youth at the village to organise a
search party to look for them the following day.
He said the youth went to their
farm and found their bodies in a pool of blood with gunshot wounds and later
informed the police who went with them to convey the bodies to the Kwahu
Government Hospital at Attibie.
GNA
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