The Bono Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has directed herdsmen whose cattle are grazing around local and forest fringe communities in the region to move their animals away.

It has therefore given the herdsmen one-week-ultimatum to do so, and said the council had set up a taskforce that would from Monday August 29, 2022, combed around, shoot and kill any cattle that would be sighted in the communities.

The REGSEC took the decision after a meeting held in Sunyani in connection with the killing of some cattle at Adoe, a farming community in the Sunyani West Municipality of the region.

Some irate youth of Adoe went rampage last Friday and killed several cattle which were causing extensive destruction of their farms and food produce.

But the security council says it has since arrested and placed in custody one suspect, Ernest Kwaku Adjei, who claimed ownership of the more than 2,000 cattle at Adoe, pending police investigations.

Briefing Sompa FM on the outcome of the REGSEC meeting in Sunyani, Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister and Chairperson of the REGSEC, it was unacceptable for the herdsmen to use their animals graze and destroy people’s properties and forest reserves.

She said it was also unlawful for owners to allow their animals to loiter in towns, and asked them to confine or lose their stray animals.

Mad Owusu-Banahene also directed the police to also investigate circumstances that led to the killing of the cattle at Adoe and submit their report to the REGSEC.

Source: Sompaonline.com/98.9FM/K.Peprah