The government has deploy 200 security men to stabilize tension and enforce peace in the Asante Akyem Municipality of the Asanti region and the Sekyere Afram Plains in the Eastern region.

In a statement a statement signed by deputy Information Minister Curtis Perry Kwabla Okudzeto, the security is made up of thePolice force as well as well as Military and the Air force staff making a joint security.

The security personnel have been tasked with the purpose of pushing the herdsmen and their cattle back away from the new grazing they have camped.

The also have been charged with the task of arresting the perpetrators who may be labelled a suspect in the recent attacks and violi=ence in the areas

They are also to increase the efforts of Operation Cowleg, an ongoing security operation aimed at dealing with the activities of herdsmen in the area.

“A programme to restrict and ranch cattle will commence upon the completion to provide a long term solution to the challenges associated with the unrestricted cattle rearing,” the statement indicated.

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