The Inspector General of Police, John Kudalor, has disagreed with assertions being made by Fulanis that the recent arrest of some policemen for their role in a failed armed robbery attempt at Maame Krobo in the Afram Plains District of the Eastern Region, vindicates their stance that some people impersonate Fulanis to commit crimes.
Fulanis living in the Afram Plains North district of the Eastern Region had on Friday, 19 August expressed their delight with the arrest of the alleged perpetrators of Tuesday’s failed robbery of a bullion van saying they feel exonerated after being stereotyped for years as criminals.
Three suspects attacked the bullion van while it was transporting cash from Nkawkaw to the Afram Plains on August 16. The driver of the van was shot dead by the assailants. But the heist was foiled and two police officers and a civilian have been arrested subsequently for investigation.
The pastoralists have, however, stated that the fact that none of the culprits identified was of Fulani ethnicity was proof that they had all along been wrongly accused of being behind armed robberies in the Afram Plains.
The Fulani have often been in the news for the wrong reasons. They have on numerous occasions clashed with locals for setting their cattle into communal water sources and indigenes’ farms to drink and graze, respectively. Such conflicts have usually culminated in the shooting, killing and raping of indigenes who confront such nomadic herdsmen.
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Monday August 22, Mr Kudalor said the assertion by the Fulanis could not be factual because there had been several arrests of robbers who were of Fulani extraction, therefore, the claim of exoneration could not be material. “We have arrested several Fulani who were engaged in robbery. In the Police Service, there are some bad nuts and that should be our concern. It is our duty to get rid them. The fortunate thing is that those good nuts outweigh those bad nuts. We will weed the bad nuts out.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM,com
