Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says the government must put in place tough measures to deal with the problem of nomadic herdsmen in parts of the country.

He says the herdsmen must be arrested and their cattle confiscated if they breach that law.

Mr. Kufuor’s comment comes at a time that Agogo indigenes in the Ashanti Region are in arms with nomadic herdsmen.

The indigenes have complained about the destruction of their farms by cattle reared by the nomadic herdsmen.

“The problem has been long dragging. Perhaps what needs to happen hasn’t been undertaken. We have always been scratching the surface. Policy on livestock must be put in place,” Mr. Kufour said.

In an exclusive interview with Joy News' Beatrice Adu, the ex-president said Ghana must adopt the ranch system like U.S. where ranch owners are made to acquire the land on which they raise their livestock.

This, Kufuor explained, will prevent nomadic herdsmen from entering Ghana’s territories to go into people lands and destroy them.

The ex-NPP flag bearer lamented how some of the nomadic herdsmen lately carry dangerous weapons like AK47 and so on to treat the natives like they are nothing.

Mr. Kufour believes It is long overdue that the law is passed such that if people want to raise livestock, they must be made to acquire the land.

According to Kufour, implementation of such a law should be regulated starting with the local government areas where concessions are made and given out to people who want to raise livestock.

“If a cattle rearer fails to abide by the law, the state must confiscate the animals or arrest the owners and deal with them according to the law,” said ex-President Kufour.

He further suggested that from the local government level such laws can be moved to the national level where is it decentralized.

President Kufour said with decentralization the local authorities are helped by the central authority to make and enforce the laws.