Government vows to protect citizens from terrorism, pirate attacks

Government says it will continue to put in place measures to ensure citizens are safe from terrorists and pirate attack

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah briefing the press on Sunday over the growing activities of terrorists and pirates in neighbouring Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali dominated a recently held cabinet retreat.

“Another incident that took over this cabinet retreat is the growing incidence of terrorism and piracy along our borders and the kind of challenge that it begins to potent for us here in Ghana.

“If you have followed what is going on in the West African sub-region, the incidents of terrorism and piracy are on the increase and literally every day they are drawing closer south which means closer to our borders here in the republic of Ghana.”

The Minister said  “the government will wish to assure citizens that it will continue to take all appropriate measures to ensure that Ghana is protected from increasing risks of terrorists activity and piracy that is always coming closer to our borders.”

“And then to our south, the Gulf Of Guniea is also getting inundated with piracy attacks and it puts us in a pretty difficult situation. Just to recap, two Spanish journalists and an Irish journalist were abducted and killed near a reserve in eastern Burkina Fase, 26th April 2021,”