THE KUMASI Mayor, Richard Ofori-Agyeman Boadi, fondly known as ‘King Zuba,’ has announced a zero-tolerance policy on stray cattle within the city during his tenure.

With effective May 1, 2025, the KMA Chief Executive stated, the movement of cattle is banned in the city as part of measures to address bedeviling sanitation challenge in Kumasi.

He made the emphatic statement while addressing a mammoth press conference at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly’s (KMA) Conference Room on Monday, April 14, 2025.

King Zuba noted that stray cattle were causing inconvenience, including dirtying the environment, posing a danger to pedestrians, and sometimes causing vehicular traffic.

He therefore admonished cattle owners to rear their cattle in confined places without allowing them to move outside so as to prevent having issues with city authorities.

King Zuba sternly warned that any stray cattle that would be caught roaming about in the city after this ban had been imposed, would be given to the Central Prisons to feed the inmates.

“Owners of cattle should note from henceforth that their cattle can move freely elsewhere without any punitive action taken against them, but not within the Kumasi Metropolis,” he said emphatically.

The Kumasi Mayor therefore urged cattle owners to cooperate with the assembly and adhere to this directive to help keep the city clean and restore it to its former glory days.

FROM Thomas Awuah-Asem 

Kumasi