{"id":390136,"date":"2018-01-10T05:59:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=390136"},"modified":"2018-01-10T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:00:27","slug":"agogo-tensions-disec-to-intensify-action-against-herdsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/agogo-tensions-disec-to-intensify-action-against-herdsmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Agogo tensions: DISEC to intensify action against herdsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Asante Akyem North District Security Council [DISEC] plans to give security personnel the green light to fire on nomadic herdsmen as part of efforts by a task-force to evict cattle in the district.<\/p>\n
This follows the injuring of three soldiers and a police officer, after they were reportedly shot by a nomadic herdsman.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”G2R6fntP3DrUJCQAWDPGqldgGzNPFeKP”]Speaking to the media after a DISEC meeting on Tuesday, the Asante Akyem North District Chief Executive, Francis Oti Boateng, said security personnel were now focused on the \u201ctotal evacuation\u201d of the about 45,000 cattle in the area.<\/p>\n
When he assumed office in 2017, he gave the cattle owners the choice to confine the animals in a ranch or evacuate within five months.<\/p>\n
But now, he feels more stringent directives are needed in light of the recent acts of violence.<\/p>\n
“The first command was that, go and flush the animals from the land but they were not ordered to kill animals or also kill Fulanis. Now that the Fulanis are firing back, we have to restructure the first order so that now, they will go into full aggression and shoot anything on sight. That is the new order we are looking for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Thus, the\u00a0Asante Akyem North has notified the Ashanti Regional Security Council of its intentions and is waiting for approval.<\/p>\n
“We cannot overly expose our military men onto such highly dangerous situations,\u201d Mr.\u00a0Oti Boateng stressed.<\/p>\n