Interior Minister proposes taxing Fulani herdsmen as a deterrent

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SAKASASKA 9 years ago

Lies/crook,
You want to give them legitimacy.
Let them pay taxes (which they will never pay) and have the right to rape, kill etc.
Keep on with the nonsense, at some point the people will get tired and true revolution will ...
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Lies/crook,
You want to give them legitimacy.
Let them pay taxes (which they will never pay) and have the right to rape, kill etc.
Keep on with the nonsense, at some point the people will get tired and true revolution will erupt.
Koo Nimo 9 years ago

Do not allow them into the country period

Do not allow them into the country period
Tawiah 9 years ago

They shouldn't be allowed to travel into Ghana in the 1st place.

They shouldn't be allowed to travel into Ghana in the 1st place.
Dela 9 years ago

How do you collect taxes from armed idiots who are almost always on the move? The cost of collecting taxes will not be worth all the effort. Just ban them from entering the country at source (the borders), and save Ghana all ...
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How do you collect taxes from armed idiots who are almost always on the move? The cost of collecting taxes will not be worth all the effort. Just ban them from entering the country at source (the borders), and save Ghana all the trouble!
Akwetey 9 years ago

Is the interior minister admitting that Ghana has lost total control over its borders? Just last week this same Woyongo asked Ghanaians to brace themselves for terrorist attacks across the country. How did we get to this sorr ...
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Is the interior minister admitting that Ghana has lost total control over its borders? Just last week this same Woyongo asked Ghanaians to brace themselves for terrorist attacks across the country. How did we get to this sorry state? No wonder Mugabe has been describing Ghana as a failed state? And Mahama is looking on unconcerned...
Ben 9 years ago

The taxes will not stop them from destroying, raping, rubbing and stilling livestock especially cows of villages. Please bring back the Alien Compliance Act to send them back to where they belong. Your idea is nonsensical, to ...
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The taxes will not stop them from destroying, raping, rubbing and stilling livestock especially cows of villages. Please bring back the Alien Compliance Act to send them back to where they belong. Your idea is nonsensical, to say the least. This shows how insensitive our officials are. Tax them and they will loot the more to pay those taxes and still have surpluses to bribe chiefs and police officers.
ka 9 years ago

Banning Fulanis in Ghana do not solve any problem. These people are nomadic and move from one country to another. They should respect the laws in Ghana, and should be prosecuted, if they break them.

How many Ghanaians pay ...
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Banning Fulanis in Ghana do not solve any problem. These people are nomadic and move from one country to another. They should respect the laws in Ghana, and should be prosecuted, if they break them.

How many Ghanaians pay taxes, let alone the migrating nomadic people.
LARYEAH 9 years ago

ABSOLUTELY NONSENSE, IDIOT! YOU AND THE INTERIOR MINISTER ARE MUMU. EVEN IF THEY ARE PEACEFUL THEY SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO BRING THEIR CATTLE TO GHANA. CATTLE ARE FULL OF DECEASES AND WHICH IMMIGRATION CHECK POINTS DID THEY P ...
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ABSOLUTELY NONSENSE, IDIOT! YOU AND THE INTERIOR MINISTER ARE MUMU. EVEN IF THEY ARE PEACEFUL THEY SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO BRING THEIR CATTLE TO GHANA. CATTLE ARE FULL OF DECEASES AND WHICH IMMIGRATION CHECK POINTS DID THEY PASS THROUGH TO BE CHECKED. THEY VIOLATED THE LAWS OF THE LAND AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED. A FOOL CALLED KA, IT IS THE GOVERNMENT JOB TO COLLECT TAXES FROM THE PEOPLE. ALSO GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NO JOB. NO JOBS NO TAXES.
ka 9 years ago

Laryeah, please be polite!!! without hurling insults on those you disagree with. Insults do not win you any points.

Unfortunately, if you are a vegetarian, some Ghanaians are not of your stock, but consume meat cooked to t ...
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Laryeah, please be polite!!! without hurling insults on those you disagree with. Insults do not win you any points.

Unfortunately, if you are a vegetarian, some Ghanaians are not of your stock, but consume meat cooked to their satisfaction.

Have you thought about the methods , mechanics and resources to be used by the government to collect taxes from cattle herdsmen who are constantly on the move. In all likelihood, the cost of collecting tax from these Fulanis will be much greater than the income to be generated from the taxes. This will be an exercise in futility!!! In addition, if these people are required to pay taxes, do they have any rights in Ghana?

If you have problems about immigration, please provide your expert advice to the Government to set up border check points and controls and require these nomadic people to use them.

Like these cattle herders, farmers in Ghana have jobs. Apart from cocoa and other export-oriented farmers, how many other farmers pay taxes in Ghana?.
Pelicles 9 years ago

Mark Woyongo, the best solution to this Fulani problem is, just evict them. Get them out of the country because they are public nuisance. Imagine their interaction with the natives. They do not respect and that alone is a re ...
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Mark Woyongo, the best solution to this Fulani problem is, just evict them. Get them out of the country because they are public nuisance. Imagine their interaction with the natives. They do not respect and that alone is a recipe for eviction. Get them out through any means possible.
John 9 years ago

Hon.Mark Wayongo,we in 21st Century.Why should Cattle be roaming destroying people farm and the solution you are offering as An Interior Minister is to say that we should Levy them.This is the Solution.
1.We either encourage ...
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Hon.Mark Wayongo,we in 21st Century.Why should Cattle be roaming destroying people farm and the solution you are offering as An Interior Minister is to say that we should Levy them.This is the Solution.
1.We either encourage them to use intensive system of keeping these Animals,or
2.We use Severe force.That is a team from the Military Purposely to stop there activities.
this can be control within A MONTH.
just one month can be use to stop their activities.
No need to even call it by name,as OPERATION COW LEG.
3.By this,we will also be able to Revamp our Meat Marketing Board,that collapsed so many years back as a result of mismanagement and stealing (Corruption),by some faceless greedy Individuals.SPIRIT OF NATIONAL INTEREST should be resurrected.Thank you.
Kofi 9 years ago

These people must be driven out of the country. Anything short of that is irresponsible on the part of the authorities! Since it appears even the government is scared of them, maybe we should rather pay them monetary incentiv ...
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These people must be driven out of the country. Anything short of that is irresponsible on the part of the authorities! Since it appears even the government is scared of them, maybe we should rather pay them monetary incentives to leave. What nonsense!
Paul 9 years ago

I hope the minister was not misquoted. You cannot discriminate in any way against anybody, let alone a people like the Fulani. If as the writer rightly points out these are a diverse people scattered across the continent, who ...
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I hope the minister was not misquoted. You cannot discriminate in any way against anybody, let alone a people like the Fulani. If as the writer rightly points out these are a diverse people scattered across the continent, who are we to say we don't want them in our country? Where on earth do we want them to go?

I am sorry but we better put our thinking caps on and seek sensible and lasting solutions to these problems rather than going for the cheaper populist options.

I find it curious that Ghanaians who are often vocal about human rights and justice and fairness all over the place will come on this forum and behave like this, just because it is not their family or clan which is being discriminated against like this. This type of bigotry must not be allowed to stand. Where is CHRAJ? and the Ministry for Families?
Aseidu Harper 9 years ago

How can you drive them out there a citizen like every Ghanaian there 40 million there everywhere in the world Europe U.S.A there the Cowboys.

How can you drive them out there a citizen like every Ghanaian there 40 million there everywhere in the world Europe U.S.A there the Cowboys.
Newsite Bansah 9 years ago

Do these 40 million Ghanaians in Europe and USA send their cows to eat other people's crops?

Try the Fulani crop destroying nonsense in the US and see how long it takes to be on the wrong end of a shotgun.

What about ...
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Do these 40 million Ghanaians in Europe and USA send their cows to eat other people's crops?

Try the Fulani crop destroying nonsense in the US and see how long it takes to be on the wrong end of a shotgun.

What about the rights of the farmers and the communities that are being terrorized?
Newsite Bansah 9 years ago

The Fulanis are reported to be breaking the law and destroying people's livlihood (farms) and this is the best the minister can come up with - tax them? So after we tax them will this then give them the right to let their ca ...
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The Fulanis are reported to be breaking the law and destroying people's livlihood (farms) and this is the best the minister can come up with - tax them? So after we tax them will this then give them the right to let their cattle lose on people's farms? And what about the farmers whose crops are destroyed? Would the taxes be given to them?

Please get the marauding Fulanis and their cows out of the South else there will be a huge price to pay.
BILLYBILLY 9 years ago

IS MARK WOYONGO THINKING RIGHT AT ALL.....hahahahahahaaaaabbbbaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh minister come again

IS MARK WOYONGO THINKING RIGHT AT ALL.....hahahahahahaaaaabbbbaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh minister come again
Andrew 9 years ago

Mr.interior minister,I believe you don't know your job as a minister.your job is not about taxes but rather if these fulanis has permits to enter Ghana with their cows .Because Ghana politics has been so cheap any one can ho ...
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Mr.interior minister,I believe you don't know your job as a minister.your job is not about taxes but rather if these fulanis has permits to enter Ghana with their cows .Because Ghana politics has been so cheap any one can hold a ministerial post
shakara 9 years ago

the only way to be able to tax these
normads is to get them registered and give them ids. they are always on the move so its almost impossible to get them registered. so forget about taxing them

the only way to be able to tax these
normads is to get them registered and give them ids. they are always on the move so its almost impossible to get them registered. so forget about taxing them
NOBODY 9 years ago

Th proposal to tax Fulani herdsman as a deterrent is not a sound proposal. How does a government tax herdsmen who continue to let their cattle destroy others' farms? Make it a criminal matter, not a matter for taxation. The l ...
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Th proposal to tax Fulani herdsman as a deterrent is not a sound proposal. How does a government tax herdsmen who continue to let their cattle destroy others' farms? Make it a criminal matter, not a matter for taxation. The law should call for criminal prosecution of the owners of the cattle while making the abusive herdsmen and their employeurs liable for compensation to those whose lands, farms, or property are damaged by the cattle. Taxing the herdsmen will signify that as long as the herdsmen are able to pay their taxes, they're free to have their cattle destroy farms and crops , while owners of farms and properties abused by the herdsmen and their cattle continue to sufer without any meaningful solution.
Charles Mensah 9 years ago

My advice is that the government can import the cattle from other Africa countries to help Ghanaian farms to improve their activities. In Europe there is no fulanis but they have billions of cows. Ghanaians we are not more t ...
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My advice is that the government can import the cattle from other Africa countries to help Ghanaian farms to improve their activities. In Europe there is no fulanis but they have billions of cows. Ghanaians we are not more than Europeans.
Nii Akwei 9 years ago

How do you tax Nomadic Group? What a complete idiot, if you ask me. Ghana will never move forward when you have people in Govt like Mr. Wayongo.

How do you tax Nomadic Group? What a complete idiot, if you ask me. Ghana will never move forward when you have people in Govt like Mr. Wayongo.
Dessy 9 years ago

Good idea..everyone doing business in Ghana must pay tax

Good idea..everyone doing business in Ghana must pay tax
kwame 9 years ago

Paying taxes good but it also increase the price of meat on the market

Paying taxes good but it also increase the price of meat on the market

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