Nationwide Safety warns church buildings over potential terrorist assaults
Following the actions of terrorist teams in neighbouring West African nations, Ghana’s Nationwide Safety has cautioned church buildings towards potential related assaults.
The Nationwide Safety mentioned measures have been instituted with a view to forestall these assaults nevertheless, the church buildings should even be on alert.
The measures instituted embody set up of Closed-Circuit Televisions (CCTVs) in church buildings, in addition to participating the companies of accredited personal safety companies.
“In view of the rising threats of terrorism from the subregion and the expansionist drive of terrorist teams in direction of Coastal West African states, with a renewed modus operandi of focusing on public gatherings together with locations of worship, it’s crucial that precautional measures are taken by all stakeholders,” a press release issued on Friday Could 13 mentioned.
It’s recalled {that a} report launched by the West Africa Centre for Counter Extremism (WACCE) launched lately mentioned Ghana has managed to this point to remain protected from terrorist assaults on house soil, but the nation has been so near terrorism.
Already, the report mentioned, greater than 13 Ghanaians are believed to have travelled to struggle with terrorist teams since 2015. As much as twenty three (23) others have been dissuaded from leaving to affix extremist teams.
“Ghana’s first recorded case was Nazir Alema Nortey3 , a younger college graduate, who shockingly left the nation in august 2015 to affix ISIS earlier than sending a message again to his mother and father to announce his new discovered trigger.
“He was killed in Syria by April 2016. Professor Kofi Awoonor, a famend Ghanaian poet and tutorial, was killed within the West Gate Mall assault in Nairobi, Kenya when Al Shabab fighters besieged the mall in 2013,” the report mentioned.
The menace has been menacingly and rapidly unfold, occurring by means of a spill over phenomenon, has ravaged the Northern borders of not solely Burkina Faso but additionally of Ivory Coast, Benin and Togo lately. With all its direct neighbors below assaults, Ghana has descending from the Sahel in direction of Coastal States within the final 5 years.
“Regardless that the fatality numbers are presently down from the height of over 7,200 within the area in 2014, the menace has elevated in complexity and geographical unfold. Immediately 53% of all ECOWAS now been encircled by the menace. These developments are harmful for Ghana.
“Ghana’s proximity to those nations (Burkina Faso to the North, Benin and Togo to the East and Ivory Coast to the West) exposes the nation to extremist recruitment or assaults or each,” it added.
It additional acknowledged that the “never-ending Bawku chieftaincy battle, the ethnic tensions in Northern Ghana and the unresolved problem of Western Togoland separatists within the Jap border areas amplify the dangers.”
By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana
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