FULANIS IN GHANA UNHAPPY

PUBLISHED IN THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER IN GHANA
The Chief of the Fulani Community in Ghana, Chief Alhaji Iddrisu Mohammed Bingle has cautioned any group of persons either within the media fraternity or the police service, interested in giving Fulanis bad publicity to stop. According to him, the Fulani community will not sit down unconcerned while Fulanis are denigrated and portrayed as bad people in Ghana. Chief Alhaji Bingle told the Globe that his people are unhappy with constant publications referring to suspected criminals as Fulanis instead of their actual names. He referred to the attempt by the media and the police to blame the Fulani community for the recent highway and other robberies as an indication that there are some individuals who are bent on painting Fulanis evil. Chief Bingle said “We are fed up with the discrimination and will not sit down to be treated this way”. According to him such discrimination is not good for the unity of the country adding that attempt by the Media to indict Fulanis anytime there is a major criminal activity in the country especially in the three Northern Regions is unacceptable. “In every community or society there are bad elements so if that individual commits any crime we should deal with that individual as a person but if you bring up the tribe then that is where the problem is” Chief Bingle said. He added that “We are not saying the Police shouldn’t deal with Fulanis but it is becoming xenophobic to the point that even if you are walking and you are a Fulani man, your tribe has been painted to be that all of you are negative people. We are not going to sit down and allow this thing to go on”.
WRITTEN BY Isaac Kaledzi