The Ashanti Regional Security Council says it will review the roadmap used by the previous administration to end the long-standing dispute between indigenes of Agogo and nomadic herdsmen at its next meeting.<\/p>\n
This was disclosed by the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, after he joined chiefs, religious leaders and other stakeholders to outline measures adopted to end the issue to residents of the Asante Akyem North District.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”AJLgUhogQsT2GX3XzByWvPulxKm55CG0″]\u201cIn the next meeting of the Regional Security Council, we are going to look at the previous roadmap that my predecessors set up and then we will review the whole roadmap and those we think we cannot work with, we change them and add those which are implementable and ensure that we resolve this problem once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also assured the people of Agogo that \u201ctheir safety was guaranteed\u201d as they prepared for the farming season.<\/p>\n
“…Any resistance, they should let us know. I don\u2019t think we are going to tolerate any impunity henceforth, where we have people shooting at the security services. I don\u2019t think we can accept that. We are going to do everything possible within the law to protect the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the new roadmap was expected to include the registration of all the owners of the cattle and could involve the tagging of all the cattle.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want a situation where we move the cattle from Asante Akyem North and they go to Kumawu and I go and fight them from Kumawu then the move to Nsuta then I will fight them from Nsuta. We have to fight the\u00a0problem once and for all.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, some herdsmen in the district have been\u00a0fleeing<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the area following heightened tensions caused by the shooting of four security personnel.<\/p>\n One of the cattle owners who spoke to\u00a0Citi News<\/strong>,\u00a0said security personnel were\u00a0shooting ruthlessly at their cattle and stealing the meat.<\/p>\n