Irate youth from Adaklu Waya and adjoining communities have destroyed the animal market at Adaklu, citing their disapproval of the alleged murder of one Wonder Deku, alias Bullet, an Okada rider from the area.
Mr. Eugene Akpatsah, Assemblyman for Adaklu Waya, disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency on the sidelines of a meeting by Adaklu chiefs, warlords, youth leaders and landowners at the instance of Togbe Gbogbi Atsa V, Paramount Chief and President of the Adaklu Traditional Council at Adaklu Abuadi.
The meeting was called to find a lasting solution to the atrocious destruction of lives and food crops by suspected herdsmen in the area.
Mr. Akpatsah stated that Bullet, who was also a talented and popular footballer was on Thursday, June 12, this year, allegedly hired by a herdsman of Fulani extraction, to take him from Adaklu Waya to Atanve in the Akatsi North district.
He continued that later the lifeless body of Bullet was discovered at Atanve with multiple knife wounds.
The Assemblyman stated that whilst observing the one week of the murder of the victim on Thursday, 19th June, the rampaging youth took the law into their hands and destroyed stores and stalls in the market.
He said animals such as cattle, sheep and goats, which were brought to the market by the Fulanis were not spared.
“The youth vent their anger on anything that they saw in the market,” Mr. Akpatsah noted.
He said the market, which was established in 2016, was the only functional market in the district and generated a lot of revenue for the Assembly but got destroyed by the incensed youth.
Mr. Akpatsah continued that the market was a source of livelihood for people in the area and beyond and not only for the Fulanis.
He appealed for a truce between the youth and the Fulanis to help find an end to the destruction of lives and property.
The Assemblyman called on law enforcement agencies to help bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to face the law.
Also present at the meeting were Mr. Jerry Yao Ameko, Adaklu District Chief Executive and Madam Esther Buakumah, Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of Adaklu District.
GNA
