KMA to form stray cattle-catching task force to save newly-planted trees

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly has resolved to assemble a team of expert cattle catchers to round up stray cows in the city.

This move is part of measures to protect the several million newly-planted Green Ghana trees from being trampled by wandering ruminants.

Announcing the intervention, Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah told journalists at a press conference, "You know, it is not easy to catch a cow. It is extremely difficult. So, we are going to hire some of those who are skilled at it to do the work for us."

"We are going to engage them, we will pay them, and it will be their responsibility to ensure that the trees we planted are not consumed or destroyed by the cattle," he explained.

Mr. Osei-Mensah added, "We will pay them for the period; that is, for a whole year, and if it is possible to have adequate resources to sustain it, then we will continue to employ them the following year as well."