V/R: Man arrested for allegedly killing a cattle herder
A suspect has been arrested in connection to the murder of a cattle herder in Alabota, near Dorfor, in the North Tongu district of the Volta Region.
The suspect, Seledzi Dotse, is currently in police custody assisting investigations.
The victim, a Fulani cattle herder, reportedly confronted the suspect over the unjustified killing of one of his cattle.
According to the assemblyman for the area, Tse Jupiter Azietor, the suspect inflicted multiple machete wounds on the herder, ultimately leading to his death, on Wednesday, July 17.
Seledzi Dotse allegedly split the victim’s head in two and fled with one half.
“On Wednesday morning around 11:am, I received a call from one of the elders at Alabota that a Fulani man was murdered. I enquired about the murderer, whom I know very well. The Fulani man’s son took his father’s cattle for grazing but the suspect accosted him and killed one of the cattle.
“The son reported the case to his father and he questioned the suspect why he killed his animal [but] he started inflicting cutlass wounds on his body,” he noted.
He added, “The son ran to the house to report the issue, but when they returned he had killed him and taken part of the deceased’s head away. The police came around and searched but couldn’t find him”.
Barely a year ago, the Vice President of the Association of Fulani Chiefs in Ghana, King Osman Bin Ahmed began a sensitization tour across the country, to promote peace among cattle rearers and crop farmers.
The tour which kicked off in the Northern Region allowed the king and his team to have various engagements with communities within the region, focused on promoting peaceful co-existence.
In a press statement, the Fulani chiefs indicated that there was the need for every member of the public to support all activities geared towards the sustainability of peace in the country, adding that without peace there could be no development in any jurisdiction.
The statement added that some unpleasant clashes between Fulani cattle rearers and farmers in the past were incidences that the leadership of the association highly condemned and assured that measures had been implemented to stop hostilities.
“Fulanis are very hard-working and peace-loving people but like every human institution there could be misunderstandings at certain points. We are never happy about any incident that has the tendency to destroy the peace in this country. That is why we are all coming out to preach peace and assure our dear farmers that we love them and are always ready to champion peace in all our endeavours,” the statement added.