Akufo-Addo Urged To Use Existing Laws To Deal With Fulani Herdsmen Issues
The General Secretary of the Fulani Association of Ghana, Mr. Yakubu Musah Barry who made the foregoing call appealed to the government and the security services within the country to behave towards the Fulani Herdsmen in the country equally as citizens of the country.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
A call has been made to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to use his executive power to impress upon the national security agencies to deal with the issues concerning the fight between Ghanaian farmers and Fulani Herdsmen in the country.
The General Secretary of the Fulani Association of Ghana, Mr. Yakubu Musah Barry who made the foregoing call appealed to the government and the security services within the country to behave towards the Fulani Herdsmen in the country equally as citizens of the country.
Mr. Musah stated that most criminal cases that are reported in the country are tagged with Fulani herdsmen and are mostly tackled with emotions by most security personnel which results in a series of intimidation and frustrations among the Fulani people which result in the infringement upon their fundamental human rights and freedoms.
He has therefore pleaded with the government and the security forces of the country to use the appropriate means to castigate Fulani herdsmen who may be found guilty in their actions against any individual, community, or the country at large.
Mr. Musah advised the Fulanis in the country to desist from the unwarranted behavior been exhibited by many of them that have put their names into disrepute.
According to him, the Fulanis should see Ghanaians as their family members and that should in case any misunderstanding ensued between Fulanis herdsmen and Ghanaians such issues should be handled with calmness and kindness.
"We are working assiduously to stop the long unending fight between Ghanaian farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the various farming and fishing communities across the country to ensure peaceful coexistence between the two feuding factions," Mr. Barry noted.
He stressed that "We the Fulanis herdsmen in Ghana should change our current attitudes or behaviors.
"We the Fulanis herdsmen should teach our children on how to behave in the normal way in Ghana, we should let our children go to school because with realized that lack of education was one of the contributory factors that made the children of the Fulanis herdsmen misbehave in the country," he stressed.
He said that currently, Fulanis herdsmen turned their mosques into drinking bars because the majority of them had stopped worshiping Islams.
"Today it may surprise you to see the scores of Fulanis herdsmen at the drinking spots at the time of worshiping Islam. This is not how it was during the time of our ancestors so we should teach our children to desist from this growing behavior. This habit of the Fulanis is bad and needs to be changed," he warned.
He called on deviant members of the ethnic group to desist from all forms of crimes perpetrated against vulnerable people in the communities they live in to keep the sanctity of their name.
He said while, generally, Fulanis were a peaceful people, a few of them who fomented trouble in their communities, had unfortunately given them a bad image.
Mr. Musah expressed concern about how some prominent opinion leaders were doing business with deviant individuals within the Fulani community.
He condemned activities of some renegade Fulani youth who had made it a habit to disturb the peace by engaging in kidnappings, racketeering, extortion, robberies, rape, and other very abhorrent and illegal acts.
“These people must be brought to order. Their actions, if not checked immediately, could erode all our achievements”, the General Secretary of the Fulanis Association stated, and called on all members of the Fulani community to be vigilant and quick to report any activity that breached the laws of Ghana.
He added that the posturing of the Fulani community must communicate an absolute, unequivocal, and unflinching “zero tolerance” to crime among the Fulani people in Ghana.
He stressed that Fulani in the country must take their education seriously to enhance attitudinal change because lack of proper education among most Fulani is a result of bad names being attached to their names.
