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”.
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