Tension Hypes at Okobeyeyie between Farmers and Fulani Herdsmen
The situation, according to residents has created apprehension among farmers and particularly, women and children when going to the farm.
Joana Somiah 
There are hypes of tension at Okobeyeyie, a farming community in the Nsawam Adoagyir Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana between farmers and Fulani Herdsmen.
The farmers are threatening to take the law into their hands by launching attacks to chase out the Fulani herdsmen from their land if the Municipal Security Council fails to address the confronted challenges caused by the herdsmen.
They accused the Fulani herdsmen of destroying their farmlands with their cattle and issuing death threats to them whilst others chase their wives for unwanted sexes.
The situation, according to them has created apprehension among farmers and particularly, women and children when going to the farm.
Addressing the media, Chief of the Community, Nana Opare Odei II opined “the activities of Fulani herdsmen are causing a lot of troubles in the area and in the entire township."
"This is because a lot of complaints have been made by farmers in the township and the nearby communities about how the Fulani Herdsmen and their cattle have been destroying their farm products and anytime they try to approach these herdsmen, they give them all kinds of threats against farmers who vehemently protest about their activities, for the fact that their cattles have destroyed his product in his farm”.
Nana Opare Odei II also bemoaned the lack of speed ramps on the road which has led to an increase in fatal pedestrian knockdown of residents.
He, therefore, appealed to the Ghana Highways authorities to provide speed rumps to reduce the road carnage’s in the area.
The Chief drew the government’s attention to an abandoned State Farms Land in the Community which was acquired in 1971 through Executive Instruments, covering an approximate area of 4.86 square miles situated in the area which is being encroached leading to conflicts and chaotic scenes.
He narrated, that the government should return the land to the Chiefs if it has failed to use it for the intended purpose.
William Ofori Akwaboa, Eastern Regional Correspondent
