The Association of Jasikan District Civil Societies (AJADSCO) has held a two-day mid-year review meeting on the natural resource and environmental governance under the KASA Project at Jasikan in the Volta Region.
About 30 individuals selected from 15 communities in the Jasikan and Kadjebi districts participated in the conference during which they reviewed the performance of the forest management committee and fire volunteers squad, formed six months earlier.
The communities are Jasikan, Bodada, Atonkor, Kudze, Worawora, Apesokubi, Kabusu, Asukawkaw, Katanga, Kadjebi and Wawase.
The participants observed that Fulani herdsmen and their cows were a big problem as they had invaded and destroyed a large part of the Kabusu River Forest Reserve which stretches from Worawora, Apesokubi, Kabusu, Asukawkaw to Katanga. Besides, they said the activities of the herdsmen and their cattle had also contributed to loss of vegetation.
According to Alhaji Issaka Braimah, Chairman of AJADSCO, the chiefs and elders of the adjoining communities had been advised to form a joint task force to control the activities of the herdsmen.
Alhaji Braimah said the traditional authorities had also been asked to control the high influx of chainsaw operators in the area. The fire volunteers appealed to stakeholders for logistics in the form of wellington boots, machetes and torches to facilitate their work.
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