Threat Of Terrorism In Africa: Must Be A Key Priority – Nana Addo

President Akufo-Addo has made a passionate call to his West African counterpart to forge synergies that would address the security challenges, particularly the terrorist menace that was engulfing the Sahel sector.

According to him, African leaders are required to be resolute and find, together in the region, the necessary economic, political and military means to reverse this pernicious development, and bring peace and stability to the lives of all people in the region.

Speaking with Sierra Leonean Leader Julius Maada Bio, who is on a two-day official visit to Ghana at the Jubilee House in Accra, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo added,

“This will present great opportunities to increase intra-African trade, create jobs, enhance incomes, and put the continent onto the path of progress and prosperity. In so doing, it is equally important for us to take the necessary measures that will make our regional market of ECOWAS effective, as a sound building block for the success of the CFTA. If our regional markets work well, our continental market will work well.”

With pervasive poverty being Africa’s biggest problem, and which is likely to pose Africa’s biggest security threat, President Akufo-Addo stated that Africa needs to have peace to deal with this debilitating problem

Explaining further President Akufo-Addo emphasized on the fact that, “If we are going to build prosperous countries, we should have peace, and those who would lead Africa must seek and cherish peace.”

African leaders, the President noted must “have more self-confidence and accept that we shall never reach the level of development we aspire to by relying on aid or external assistance, no matter how generous. It is a mindset that I wish us to discard, a mind-set of dependency and living on handouts; it is unhealthy both for the giver and for the recipient.”

Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured that government would provide the funding for the critical infrastructure needed to ensure Ghana’s cyber security, to protect the people, the economy and the country’s national security.

Furthermore, as part of efforts to secure Ghana’s cyber space, government, he said, was to set up a National Cyber security Authority and enact also a Cyber security Act to address, in line with global trends, the current challenges facing the national cyber security development.