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A security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, is cautioning against what he termed the larger geo-strategic implications of a move to evict Fulanis from some communities in Agogo of the Ashanti region. He told Citi News the treatment being meted out to the nomads in Ghana could lead to dire consequences on Ghanaians living in other parts of the continent. �Here we treat Fulanis almost as if they are sub-human," Dr. Aning pointed out. "If you listen to the public discourse, when you scan the radio stations, people are saying Fulanis sleep with animals." �Anyone who rears animals in this country and treats his Fulani family with dignity and respect as they deserve would know that they have the same intellectual capability as we have. �So the wider ripple effect is that other countries where Fulanis are in the majority and are the governing elite, they may decide to overlook the maltreatment of Ghanaian residents in that country." Dr. Aning of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre noted: �When it happens, what would we say, that we have been discriminated against? It is normal and natural for people who think their family members have been raped, whose farms have been destroyed naturally to be angry. �But we�ve got to tamper that anger with recognition that there are rules and regulations and there are authorities who must respond to this threat. �