Headless Body Of Fulani Herdsman Found

For the second time in six months, a Fulani herdsman in the Agogo portion of the Afram Plains has allegedly been beheaded.

The deceased, identified as Mohammed Bello, 24, is believed to have been decapitated while grazing his cattle at Kowiriso.

The Agogo District Police Commander, DSP Nana Yawson, told the Daily Graphic yesterday that the police had no clues as to who might be responsible for the heinous crime.

The police are also yet to trace the whereabouts of the severed head.

DSP Yawson, however, indicated that the police were making frantic efforts to get to the bottom of the matter.

The body has been deposited at the Agogo Hospital for autopsy.

For some time now the people of Agogo have been at loggerheads with Fulani herdsmen over the destruction of farms by the cattle of the Fulanis.

Not long ago, the traditional authorities issued an ultimatum to the herdsmen to leave the area but they have not obeyed the order.

The District Police Commander stated, however, that it was too early to link the latest incident to the raging conflict between the people of the area and the Fulani herdsmen.

According to him, the incident happened last Saturday, June 4, 2011, and when the news got to him, he sent men to the scene where Bello’s headless body was found.

He quoted witnesses as saying that they had seen the herd of cattle running back and later realised that the herdsman had been killed by unidentified persons.

DSP Yawson said two Fulani men were tending their cattle at the time of the crime.

The other person, Imoro Umlo, however, managed to escape the attack and he has been invited by the Agogo Police to help in police investigations.