Victims Of Agogo Fulani Conflict Particularly Children Receive Support

Children who lost their parents in persistent clashes between natives and nomadic herdsmen at Agogo in the Ashanti Region, have begun receiving financial support.

The gesture is a special fund set up by Managing Director of Asadu Royal Waste Management, Edward Asadu.

It follows a Joy News Hotline documentary, 'Violent Shepherds’, which recounts the murder of 50 local farmers in Agogo in the last 15-years.

A third-year nursing student of Sekondi Nursing Training College is the first beneficiary, with an initial three thousand Ghana cedis to pay her fees.

Mr. Edward Asadu presented a cheque for the amount to Faustina Awuah Ampong at a short ceremony at Luv FM premises in Kumasi.

Twenty others are earmarked to have their turn in due course.

Mr. Asadu is setting aside twenty thousand Ghana cedis (20,000) every year to finance the education of affected children.

Ms Awuah Ampong, who featured in the Violent Shepherds documentary, is excited at the gesture as she compares her current situation to her past.

"It was very difficult because my father was dead and I was struggling to pay my fees.

"Sometimes they will sack me from the exams hall just because I was not able to pay my school fees but now, I would be able to pay," she stated.

Her mother, Yaa Nyantakyiwaa, struggled to find her words, with the feeling the gesture has relieved of the burden of paying school fees.

But for Mr. Asadu, it was a promise fulfilled, describing it as a social responsibility programme.

"We promised and always when we promised, we make sure that we will do it. At Asadu Royal Waste, part of our social responsibility, we need to help those who are in need."

While promising more support for the needy in society, he courts for more support from corporate bodies for the vulnerable in society.