by Tylenol

“Myjoyonline.com” reported that the people of Fanteakwa in the Eastern region (Ghana) had become the latest victims of the constant heinous crimes perpetrated by the Fulani herdsmen. Similar reports surfaced in the media on numerous occasions in the past. These crimes include raping of under age and young schoolgirls and their mothers and thereby spreading incurable sexually transmitted diseases among the people, burning people’s houses and farms and murdering innocent defenseless people with AK 47 riffles.

These are crimes that no sensible or sane foreigner dare perpetrate against a person in his/her land of birth. I do not think any Ghanaian would be brave enough to go commit such crimes against any person in his/her motherland. As the wise Akan saying goes: “Do not become an Agyeman in somebody’s land”. Translated into English this means do not become the lord in somebody’s land or simply be humble in somebody’s territory. As if “Agyeman” is not big enough to the average Akan, to me these Fulani’s have become even something much bigger namely, an “Agyeman Prempeh”. If these criminal acts by these fulanis were done in any other country, they would be branded acts of military aggression and would be met with immediate and stiff military response.

Like all other problems in Ghana, one can very easily trace at least 90% of the origin of this problem to the Rawlings-NDC-PNDC entity. Libyans are Fulanis too. These Fulanis were unknown in Ghana until the emergence of the Fulani/Libyan/Sahelian lordship over the Rawlings-NDC-PNDC entity. As outlawed from civilization and the rule of law as this entity was, it desperately sought recognition and backing from their equals.

Rawlings’ indiscriminate insertion of the northern people of Ghana into the body politics of Ghana and putting them into very sensitive law enforcement positions, appear to have fomented this Fulani problem in three ways as follows.

1) Like all other groups in the north of West Africa, the people of northern Ghana have cultural ties with these fulanis and naturally they will be sympathetic to the fulanis. For example, the crimes committed by these fulanis are very common, typical inter-tribal and intra-tribal crimes that happen on frequent basis amongst the people of northern Ghana.

2) How sincerely will a law enforcement officer from northern Ghana bring to justice a Fulani crime perpetrator?

3) The fulanis are natives of lands to the north of Ghana. So, the only place a Fulani is likely to enter Ghana is across northern, northeastern or northwestern border of Ghana, which are manned by northerners. How sincerely will a law enforcement or an immigration officer from the north refuse a Fulani criminal illegal entry into Ghana?

About a year or so ago, a Fulani criminal was apprehended and disarmed through the communal effort by barehanded and unarmed men, in a district in which the district police chief is a northerner. These men handed over the Fulani criminal to the local police. For unknown reasons, the Fulani criminal was able to escape from police custody. The funny explanation given by the police was that while three able-bodied policemen were escorting the Fulani criminal to another station, all three police officers simultaneously fell sick, so they could no longer contain the Fulani and he escaped. What do you make out of this story? Apparently all three policemen were northerners. For any serious effort by the government at checking these Fulani atrocities to be effective, it must simultaneously tackle the northern factor in the problem. It appears the northerners constitute “a very disturbing mole in the household” as far as this matter is concerned.

Many a wise Ghanaian leader has parted this life, but they have left legacies that remain respected today and from which we can learn some helpful lessons. The late Prime Minister Dr. Busia and his administration had the clever thought that when a foreign criminal is incarcerated in Ghanaian prisons, it costs the state money to feed and cater for him/her. Dr. Busia’s administration conducted a study and found that the largest percentage of prison inmates in Ghana was from other African countries outside Ghana, such as these fulanis are. It is this clever conviction that culminated in the birth of the “Aliens Compliance Order”. Dr. Busia’s administration was right, then, now and forever.

A few months ago, State and Federal agents in the US carried out an operation dubbed “Operation Falcon”, by which they arrested in large numbers criminals who had been fugitives from the law. As many as ten thousand criminals were arrested in just a one day swoop. Invariably, illegal aliens among them would be deported to their home countries and aliens with lawful residence among them will be made to serve their respective sentences after which they will be stripped of their lawful status and be deported from the US. This operation won the praise of many Americans because it will rid their communities of criminals and make their communities safer. This indeed is a replica of Dr. Busia’s “Aliens Compliance Order” in operation, in the most civilized and most advanced of all countries, several years after Dr. Busia’s death.

The late Dr. Nkrumah, the first president did a lot of good things for Ghana, but he also made some very serious mistakes. The beneficial aspect of these mistakes is that it constitutes a lesson for the current generation so that knowing the negative consequences the current generation would not repeat those mistakes.

In pursuit of his dreams of African Unity, Pan Africanism and probably to attain international “stardom” not only did Nkrumah ignore domestic matters but he also put to the avail of other individual Africans who were not Ghanaians as well as other African nations, the resources of Ghana to an alarming extent. It could probably be viewed as gross mismanagement of state resources. Years latter, some of these beneficiary African countries were even doing much better than Ghana economically.

I remember very well during my school days in Ghana, and during the economic hard times in Ghana, when one such country was heard to have ridiculed Ghana as a country in which people were lining up for food. In 1977/78 I personally read a New York Times lengthy report on Ghana which said: “the country that once promised to bring freedom to all of Africa and was policing Africa, now has economic problems of her own which she can not solve”. If any body wants to verify this NYT article, go through the archives and I guarantee he/she will find it.

Ghanaians need to learn a lesson from this NYT article and ridicules form fellow African countries. To me they constitute constructive criticisms, at worst. Years ago, a former high school mate of mine met a person from East Africa in the US and this East African was full of praise for Dr. Nkrumah because Nkrumah gave him a scholarship to come abroad to study. This East African continued by saying that had it not been Nkrumah he would not have obtained higher education. It is nice to hear such praises but Ghana needs to be practical sometimes and limit the Mr. Nice Guy attitude so that she can pay attention to problems in her household and attend to the needs, welfare and security of her own citizens.

Ironically, Ghana is repeating the mistakes that Nkrumah made, probably to a worse extent. It appears that the Ghana government is shying away from any sensible, effective or legal actions against these Fulani criminals who are traumatizing her citizens for fear that such actions might not be in line with her stand on African Unity, Ecowas and regional “integration”. You don’t talk about regional integration and alliance when fulanis have illegally entered your country and are raping under aged school girls and their mothers, spreading incurable sexually transmitted diseases among your people, burning down their farms and houses and killing unarmed innocent people with AK 47 rifles in your land. Enough of Mr. Nice Guy attitude; it is time to be practical and take care of the citizens of your country and protect them against foreign criminals like the fulanis. The welfare and security of the Ghanaian should come first, then AU and ECOWAS matters should come last. Ghana should not repeat the mistakes that Nkrumah made.

Ghana appears to be a ridiculous and impractical fanatic of regional “integration and unity” that puts the welfare, security and lives of her citizens in harms way, in pursuit of her regional “unity” goals. Therefore, I wish to draw the attention of Ghanaians to other similarly situated regional blocks elsewhere, so that we can look at their approach to this regional integration issue and learn from them.

There are blocks of developing countries in South America, Asia and Middle East. Have we heard of or do we know of any country within these blocks that is policing these blocks to the extent of using her resources to achieve these objectives and jeopardizing the security of her people? We like to compare Ghana with so much with Malaysia, because Malaysia and Ghana got independence from Britain at the same time. Do we hear of Malaysia policing the Asian countries at the expense of her treasury, the security and welfare of her people?

In the Middle East, do the Saudis not have enough wealth to bring all Palestinians to Saudi Arabia to stay with them and forget about their woes elsewhere? Why are the Saudis not doing that? Look everywhere the PLO moved to, they operated their terrorist campaign and attracted the wrath of the Israelites against the host country. It happened in Lebanon. Of course my good friends of Israel have every right to defend themselves against terrorist aggression. It has been my worry that the #%!& called J.J. Rawlings would one day be ordered by his Libyan/Sahelian/Fulani lords to bring the PLO to Ghana. Thereafter, on a visit to Ghana, one would see a bomb shattered country and one might stand at the Tema harbor and emotionally write an analog of the poem that Francis Scott King wrote at the Baltimore (Maryland) harbor in 1814. The reality is still there and we need to worry about it. If Saudis are smart enough not to do it, you bet that moron is always ready to undertake foolish and unwise adventures. A damn #%!& controlled by Libyan/Sahelian/Fulani dummies.

As another example of practicality in regional cooperation back in Africa, I wish to mention when Ghanaians were repatriated in large numbers from Nigeria and Togolese authorities wont allow the ship transporting the Ghanaians to dock at their harbor for fear that the Ghanaians would stay in Togo. Obviously, the Togolese authority was concerned that the influx of these Ghanaians would strain their economy. That is practicality lesson right there, which Ghana needs to learn in her approach to this AU and ECOWAS business.

During my secondary school days in Ghana a very intelligent school mate of mine, and a very good friend of mine, who was well vested in economics and business disciplines made a very clever observation? He said that a greater portion of the economic woes of Ghana could be attributed to her neighboring West African countries. Indeed, several years latter a high-ranking senior official of the Ghana Commercial Bank would confirm this to me in a personal discussion. It was during an air flight to Ghana when I happened to sit next to this executive who incidentally had come to the US to solicit foreign exchange for the Ghanaian bank. I told him that I hope that money remittances that we send home periodically do indeed help the Ghanaian economy.

In response he said that most of the foreign monies go to the forex bureaus where people from the CFA zones (neighboring African countries) come to exchange with CFA’s and take them out of Ghana and it does not effectively help the Ghanaian economy. Indeed, this is exactly what my high school friend meant several years ago. My friend made this observation long before we sat for our O’levels exams so he was not even O’level-ripe when he made this observation. So the point is if this young boy was able to do this clever analysis, why cant Ph. D’s in economics, Ph. D’s in international relations ACCA’s in accounting etc in administrative capacities in Ghana devise a workable and practical approach to this AU and ECOWAS business for Ghana.

It does not look right for Ghana to ignore the welfare of her people in pursuit of regional “unity” goals. It is certainly not right for Ghana to shy away from any lawful and meaningful measures to contain these Fulani criminals, for fear of “not looking good” in the eyes of AU or ECOWAS members. Ironically, the AU and ECOWAS claim to be following the patterns of EU, but among the European Union, they do not take advantage of EU provisions to go commit such heinous crimes in other member states. The crimes perpetrated by the fulanis would definitely not be tolerated if they had been committed by a group of Europeans in another EU member state.

The recent devaluation of the CFA in the francophone countries reduced their incomes and buying powers. This created a situation whereby only Ivory Coast and Ghana remained the only markets for the Fulani or Sahelian cattle. The war in Ivory Coast has made matters worse for these Fulani herdsman such that currently only Ghana remains the major market for their cattle in the sub region.

That being the case, does a vendor go to seek market in somebody’s land in the capacity of “Agyeman”? Certainly no, because the buyer who has money has the upper hand and he/she can kick you out and buy from elsewhere. This is exactly what Ghana needs to consider. Instead of letting in backward fulanis to rape under age girls and their mothers, and spread incurable sexually transmitted diseases, burn their houses and farms down, fire AK 47’s rifles to murder innocent people in Ghana, Ghana should seriously consider throwing these people out of the country and buying beef from elsewhere.

The United States, Argentina, Canada and the European Union can supply neater beef that has been given proper veterinary care, than that obtained from the fulanis. A look through the trade books shows that the major trade partners of Ghana are Nigeria, US, Canada, Netherlands, Britain and Germany, no Fulani land is mentioned. Incidentally, these same countries are also the major donors and financial helpers of Ghana, no Fulani land is known to be a donor to Ghana. It is my belief that the amount of aid and grant given by these countries to Ghana, may be tied to the volume of trade that Ghana does with them. The governments in these advanced countries derive their income from tax revenue paid by their corporations, so the bigger the corporate business volume, the more taxes are paid to the government and perhaps the more grants that reach Ghana. So why not avoid that Sahelian beef, and buy from the source where the money you spend will turn around to come back and help you. It certainly will be to Ghana’s advantage to increase the volume of her trade, especially her buying power, with her donors and financial helpers.

A few years ago, during a visit to Ghana, and during the administration of that Rawlings-NDC-PNDC entity, I saw a situation in Accra whereby a young Fulani refugee pointed to his light colored skin in an insulting manner and indicated to a Ghanaian standing nearby, that his Fulani skin was “superior” to that of the Ghanaian. I said to myself that one day in future, these people would bring some major unrest in Ghana and indeed this is exactly what we have started seeing these days. This indeed is the fundamental mentality of the Sahelian brutes and the main cause of the crimes they are perpetrating against Ghanaians. Indeed, it is also the main cause of the unrest in most of these Fulani countries in West Africa. Look at a person with a shaky or probably illegal immigration status in Ghana, telling the birthright citizen of Ghana that he is superior to him. The big question is what is his offspring going to do to the Ghanaian when the offspring is born Ghana? Looking at the filthy appearance of that backward sahelian brute in Accra, I could not tell the last time that he took a shower or how many seconds of formal education he might have had in the classroom in his whole life. The fulanis are dangerous and backward and the Ghana government should seriously think of kicking them out of the country.

Historical records point out that the failures of all previous governments in Ghana have been attributed to one factor namely, “fallen cocoa prices on the world market”. This reflects the monumental extent to which the government of Ghana, the economy, the people and their whole lives all depend on the soil. Therefore, any activity that jeopardizes the health of the soil should be checked seriously. The Sahara desert is said to be spreading at an alarming rate southwards and the lands are all becoming barren and unable to sustain water and nutrients for agricultural activity. The soils and plants derive their nourishment such as nitrogen and other useful minerals from organisms that dwell in these soils and vice versa. Just like any other organism, excessive heating and other improper treatment of the soil destroy the resident organisms and thereby deprive the soil of the needed nutrients.

The Sahara desert spans over most of the fulani territories up in the northern part of West Africa. One may be right to speculate that the poor agricultural practices of these Sahalian dummies, is responsible for the spread of the desert in their territories. Now they have come to Ghana to do the same thing, burning vegetation and farms, which are very destructive to the health of the soil. Obviously, as dummies as these brutes are, they may not be selective in their choice of chemicals to set the Ghanaian vegetation ablaze. I wonder if it is of any concern to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana to verify what chemicals these dummies are using and the long-term effects that such chemicals may have on the soil, humans, animals and the environment. This could be catastrophic in much the same way as they have caused the creation and rapid southward spread of the sahara desert in their territory. Now Ghana is lucky that she can grow cocoa and only needs to worry about the “fallen cocoa prices on the world market”. If the environmentally unfriendly activities of the fulanis continue, in future Ghana may need to worry about not being able to grow cocoa on the destroyed soil, let alone “fallen prices on the world market”.

Quite often, one hears attempts to shift the blame onto traditional administration, saying that the local chiefs take money from these Fulani men. Even if that were true, I think that the local chiefs need our sympathy rather than our blames. These fulanis, like the people up in the north of Ghana are fanatics of voodoo and satanic worshiping and I suspect that they use demonic powers to charm the chiefs into accepting monies which they would otherwise reject. The chief did not go to Fulani land to solicit money from the Fulani, it is the Fulani who came to Ghana to “offer” money to the chief. Furthermore, the Fulani has no business at all being in Ghana. Therefore, if the Fulani entered Ghana to transact illegal business by demonic and satanic powers, he has himself to blame for the consequences.

There is no argument that these backward fulanis are a threat to Ghana and they should be removed from the nation. Similar situations have arisen elsewhere before, whereby the citizens by birth were unhappy about the improper activities of some foreigners. After numerous futile complaints to their governments, the indigenes had enough and so they resorted to violence and it worked very well indeed. An example was in Germany where the indigenes complained about unscrupulous activity by foreigners and it fell on the government’s deaf ears, in the 1990’s. After years of repeated complaints, the indigenes resorted to some very serious violent activities against the foreigners and at time the government listened. It is my hope that the government of Ghana will heed the call for help form these helpless Ghanaian indigenes, so that they do not run out of options and resort to violence, because they know that that method worked in Europe and elsewhere.

The solution is to remove these backward and dangerous sahelian brutes called Fulani, from Ghana. The security and the welfare of the Ghanaian in his/her land of birth, is the responsibility of the government and it should not be compromised in pursuit of an impractical regional “unity” agenda. Governmental complacence may force the Ghanaian victims to resort to violence; it is their country and their land of birth.

Author: Tylenol, USA

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