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How Ghana Deals With Its Fulani Herdsmen Problem by waylz(m): 10:22pm On Apr 13, 2016 |
The Fulani herdsmen versus indigenous farmers
problem is not just an issue in Nigeria but often
across the whole of West Africa.
In Ghana the District Chief Executive of the Eastern
region Abass Fuseini Sbaabe says he has been
working to control Fulani in his area.
Speaking in a recent interview, Sbaabe says his
Eastern Region district developed a range of plans
to deal with the nomadic herders over the eight
years he has been in office.
Here are some of the measures used:
He worked to register the Fulani as well as their
cattle, keeping them in the district’s records, which
he said was meant to make it easier to identify a
Fulani if he was accused of a crime.
They were also asked to get a permit before rearing
animals in the area, and the land they were rearing
them on was also monitored.
“Once the Fulanis knew that we had their picture
here and all the relevant particulars about them
they were careful with dealing with our farmers.
For us that was the most important thing. If you
send your animals to go and destroy the farms of
somebody that is one thing, if you carry a gun and
shoot a farmer that is more serious. So ours is to
try to make sure our farmers were safe once we
had the identification and photos of the Fulani. We
were able to control them and tell them they are
never to carry arms as they know we have all the
needed documentation about them,” the District
Chief Executive said.
Sbaabe’s office also asked the Fulani to wear
numbered vests so farmers could see their number
and report them if they did anything illegal,
however Sbaabe said he and his office soon
realised the Fulani would take the vests off if they
were to “misbehave”.
The DCE then decided to have the Fulani paint the
horns of their animals, with the colour
corresponding to a particular cattle owner, “to help
us track the owners of the cattle when they go to
misbehave on the farms.”
“This time they knew we would surely get them so
we had very few of them deciding to comply.”
The district tried to enforce the horn-painting, and
started a fresh registration process.
“Some of them refused to comply so we got the
military and police to expel them.” http://nairametrics.com/how-ghana-deals-with-its-fulani-herdsmen-problem/ 1 Like |
Re: How Ghana Deals With Its Fulani Herdsmen Problem by PlayerMeji: 12:19am On Apr 14, 2016 |
That is very smart!!! |
Re: How Ghana Deals With Its Fulani Herdsmen Problem by sanandreas(m): 8:21am On Apr 14, 2016 |
This what Nigeria need and not grazing reserve area 1 Like |
Re: How Ghana Deals With Its Fulani Herdsmen Problem by blackjack21(m): 11:53pm On Apr 15, 2016 |
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Re: How Ghana Deals With Its Fulani Herdsmen Problem by otokx(m): 1:29pm On Apr 17, 2016 |
Ghana unlike Nigeria does not have Sambisa forest where all the Fulani herdsmen can graze with their cattle. |
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