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Challenges
and threats of oil find must be
confronted - Mpiani
Accra, Aug. 5, Ghanadot/GNA- Presidential Affairs Minister Kwadwo
Mpiani on Tuesday noted that Ghana needed to brace itself to
confront the challenges and threats to national security as
a result of the recent discovery of oil to enable the
country reap maximum results from the find.
He observed that in the wake of the oil find, numerous
businesses and a lot of people from the Sub-region would
relocate to the Western Region and other parts of the
country to provide goods and services for the operation of
the industry, which could hold serious security implications
for the economy and its development agenda.
Fortunately, government, he said, was taking a cue from the
experiences of Nigeria and other oil producing countries,
with discussions underway, to find the best way to manage
these resource and the resulting challenges.
Mr. Mpiani, who is also the Chief of Staff at the
Presidency, was speaking at the opening of the fifth
Security Sector Governance and Management Course at the
Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC) at
Teshie near Accra.
The three-week course is aimed at broadening the
understanding of the generality of the Ghanaian society of
the major political, economic, organisational and
behavioural phenomena that are relevant to national security
decision making.
Participants are drawn from the security agencies, civil
society, and other stakeholders including policy-makers.
Mr Mpiani said similar attention should be given to some of
the emerging crimes in the country such as armed robbery,
unexplained murders, chieftaincy and land disputes, mob
justice and the use of Ghana as a transit point for
narcotics because this were issues that held threats to the
country’s security.
He said government was committed to the effective management
and resolution of conflicts and crisis to “further enhance
the peace Ghana is enjoying” in the West African sub-region.
The Chief of Staff tasked the participants to make relevant
contributions and to come up with appropriate
recommendations for consideration by government.
The Course is being run in collaboration Cranfield
University, UK, the University of Ghana, Legon, the Ghana
Institute of Management and Public Administration, and the
African Security Dialogue and Research, Ghana.
GNA
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