Afram Plains North registering Fulani cattle owners

The Kwahu Afram Plains North District Assembly has formed a task force to register all Fulani cattle owners and their cattle to enable the Assembly to collect rates from them and also to monitor their movement.

The task force would liaise with the chiefs who offer land to the cattle owners and assembly members to register the cattle owners and their cattle.

The project is to enable the assembly to generate revenue from the number of cattle in the area to finance development projects.

The District Finance officer of the Assembly, Mr Gerald Younaye, said this in an interview with the GNA Media Auditing and Tracking of Development Projects in the district.

He said so far, 44 Fulani cattle owners and their cattle from Nigeria, Niger, Togo and Mali who have brought large number of cattle to the district for grazing had been registered by the assembly.

Mr Younaye said the Assembly had contacted the Ghana Armed Forces and the Ghana Immigration Service to assist the task force to register the cattle owners and their cattle and to monitor their movement.

He appealed to the chiefs and the assembly members to cooperate with the task force to ensure the success of the exercise.

He said the assembly and the cattle owners had agreed for the cattle owners to pay Gh¢200.00 per annum per a farmer but the assembly is insisting that the task force should count the number of cattle of each owner to be used to determine how much is cattle owner should pay to the assembly.