Fulani Herdsman murdered by His Employer Over 7 Stolen Cows 

A Fulani herdsman has allegedly been murdered by his employer by the name Sosa Michael at Lantei, a Community near Nsawam in the Nsawam Adoagyir Municipality of the Eastern region of Ghana.

The incident occurred after rustlers attacked the now deceased Herdman at gunpoint, tied him with rope, and allegedly raped the wife, and went away with 7 cows.

Speaking to the media, Issifu Habbib opined, master Sosa Michael, rather became furious when he came the next day and was informed about the incident. He accused the herdsman of conniving with the rustlers hence neat him to a pulp till he died.

“The Ewe man Sosa Micheal, who own the cattle and employed a Fulani cowboy to take care of his cattle has beaten his employee to death. This sad incident occurred at Lantei near Nsawam on Tuesday night.

"Bandits came and attacked his employees at gunpoint and made away with 7 of his cows and raped one of his employee’s wives. When he came in the morning to the kraal he met with his employees tight up after he rescued them he and his friend decided to beat them up and accuse them of planning with the bandits of stealing his cows".

"He took the law into his own hands, beat them up, broke the deceased leg and took him away, leaving one of his employees to take care of the rest of the cattle". 

"Adding that after taking him away and kept him for only God knows where he was until Wednesday when he went and reported the case at a nearby police station, but saddened, that station does not fall under the jurisdiction where the incidence happened".

"When our team was informed, Yakubu Barry rushed to the scene and met with the other employee who had then fled with his wife who was raped by the bandits to his uncle’s house at Kasoa".

According to him, “Our team has reported the case to the Nsawam district police station and police are investigating and also looking for Sosa Micheal (the culprit) who is now at large.

Afterwards, the Ewe man took his employee to the hospital he then called one of his family members to informed him that his employee has taken a suspected poison, and by the time he brought him to the hospital he has passed on”.

The police have taken over the case and investigations are ongoing.

“Our team went to the hospital with the employees family member and the police CID 3 days ago and has confirmed the dead body was his employee with lots of wounds on his body asides from his broken leg”

William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Region