The chief and people of Datuuk near Tongo in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region have appealed to the Regional Minister, Alhaji Limuna Mohammed–Muniru to help find a lasting solution to threats and attacks from Fulanis headsmen in the area.
They alleged the headsmen were making life unbearable for them in the district as they (herdsmen) continued to destroy their farms and also sexually and physically harass women, particularly peoples’ wives.
Several attempts by the Assembly woman for the area, Madam Beatrice Borizina to have the problem solve, had yielded no result.
The Assemblywoman made the appeal when she held a meeting with the chief and people of the area on the matter.
Recently, she said, one of their brothers by name Tohok Boabil working with a ‘Moshie’ man, who is a small scale mining dealer in the area, was shot dead by an assailant alleged to have a been a Fulani headman.
According to her, the deceased heard a strange noise from his master’s house and in an attempt to find out what was happening he met his untimely death.
She said the situation had worsened as the Fulani headsmen now threatened them with weapons, dangerous implements. She said the raped their women and destroyed farm produce, especially sheanut tress which the women depended on for their livelihoods.
“This year’s farming activities will become difficult since the farmers are afraid to go to their farmlands,“ Madam Borizina predicted.
