Given the activities of terrorist groups and the instability in some states bordering Ghana, there is the need for the Transition Team in Ghana to make security issues top of their agenda, Dr Kwesi Aning, a security expert at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping and Training Centre, has said.
According to him, the pockets of post-election violence in Ghana could be fertile grounds for terrorist organisations to carry out their operations in Ghana, hence the need to prioritise security during the handing-over process.
Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Friday December 16, Dr Aning said: “The activities of Islamic State, al-Qaeda and the rest make the attacks in Ghana very dangerous. Just recently, the Islamic State has formed another group in northern Burkina Faso called Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and they have already undertaken four attacks.
“So with what is happening in this country, where people who have issues with others are hiding behind the outcome of the elections to misbehave, some people coming from outside the country can manipulate and exploit it to suit their interests. And so at the moment it is no more a political party problem, it is a national security problem.
“Because of the instability in our neighbouring countries, where al-Qaeda and Islamic State are very active, the Transition team should make security top of the agenda. Already we have proliferation of illegal arms in the country, with 1.1 million unlicensed and unidentified, and so if we don’t come together as one nation, as Ghanaians, we will not like what will happen.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
