Military personnel are expected to team up with the security in the Agogo township in the Ashanti Region following the re-emergence of attacks purported to be by some nomadic herdsmen in the area.
A joint police and military task force known as ‘Operation Cow Leg’, was deployed to the area to help resolve the recurring tensions that exist between nomadic herdsmen and local crop farmers.
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However, on Saturday, a 35-year-old security guard who worked with Scanfarms Ghana Limited who tried driving away some cattle that were grazing on a Sorghum farm was butchered in the process.
The Agogo District Police Commander, ASP James Jerry Ameka, in an interview with an Accra-based radio station, confirmed that a team of military officers will join to help stabilize the situation.
“Those areas are predominantly Konkombas so we met the opinion leaders and the Odikro this afternoon and we had a meeting with them assuring them that they should have confidence in us and that we are still around,” he explained.