Some residents of the Sherigu community of the Bolgatanga Municipal in the Upper East Region have been arrested and remanded by the Police. Information gathered by Apexnewsgh.com has it that the residents numbering 53 were arrested for attacking police officials. According to sources, the misunderstanding started between the Fulani and the people of the Naaga community after a Chief’s son was robbed and killed on his way returning home. The incident generated some amount of controversy and hands were immediately pointed at the Fulanis as culprits for all the arm robbery cases along Sherigu- Naaga road. Community members immediately demanded that Fulani vacate their community with animals. Sources say properties belonging to these Fulanis were destroyed before police intervened. Days later, the issue also escalated to Sherigu a nearby community as they also demanded that the Fulani people must leave their community because the robbery incident was beginning to get out of hand. Sources say, community members also went and destroy things belonging to the Fulani people including their animals. Police quickly intervened and rescued the headsmen to their station and later moved them to the Bolga sports stadium. However, after calming the situation, the information says, police received another tip of an alleged plan by some residents to attack the Fulani’s and immediately started making arrests of the leaders. It was based on that, community members matched to the police to demand the release of their people and unfortunately had some confrontations with police. Our source says, the community members did not engage the chief of the area before carrying out their actions. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0256336062
Over 150,000 cattle entered Upper East Region, as Regional Minister admonished to be ….
Upper East Regional Minister has revealed that over One Hundred and Fifty Thousand (150,000) cattle have already entered Ghana for grazing. The Regional Minister revealed this to Apexnewsgh.com after he met with all the Fulanis in the region to officially interact with them following the ongoing threats from a terrorist group popularly known as Jihadists who are believed to be operating in most countries in the sub-region including our neighboring country Burkina Faso. As i speak, over One Hundred and Fifty Thousand (150,000) cattle have already entered Ghana. “So I told all my DCEs that, this is even a source of revenue to them because if they are charging one cow Ghc5.00 multiply it by 150,000 cattle. And they come this time to graze and go back and that is what they do every year”. The Minister said, chiefs in our communities need to be very careful in their transactions by screening anyone coming into their community to graze. He fears that if no proper screening is done by various chiefs, it might result as a disaster to region and country at large because the Jihadists might take advantage of the opportunity by way of entering the region with cattle. For publication please kindly contact us on +233256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Upper East Regional Minister engages Fulanis over terrorist Jihadists threat
Upper East Regional Minister has met with all the Fulanis in the region to officially interact with them following the ongoing threats from a terrorist group popularly known as Jihadists who are believed to be operating in most countries in the sub-region including our neighboring country Burkina Faso. Apexnewsgh.com report Speaking to Apexnewsgh.com, the Regional Minister said: “I met all the Fulani’s in this region because we have realized that the Jihadist most of them are Fulanis and they are talking to our Fulani people here. Because they speak the same language and they are the same people. We think, there is a need to start engaging our Fulanis. So that, they will be able to give us information. I also used the opportunity to tell them that if they joke and the Jihadists enter the region, all of us are going to suffer”. Meanwhile, aside from engaging the Funali community in the region, Minister Yakubu confirmed he also engage the chiefs. He said, he spoke to all the chiefs because the Chiefs are the people who allowed the Fulanis to come in for a grazing. However, also revealed that Over One Hundred and Fifty Thousand (150,000) cattle have already entered Ghana. “So I told all my DCEs that, this is even a source of revenue to them because if they are charging one cow Ghc5.00 multiply it by 150,000 cattle. And they come this time to graze and go back and that is what they do every year”. He added: “Our problem is that we wanted to tell the chiefs to be very careful, anybody that is coming in, they should screen the person because the Jihadists can come with them. Because usually when they come, is the chiefs that they see first because sometimes they give the chiefs some of the cattle. So, that is why we are engaging the chiefs”. For publication please kindly contact us on +233256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com









