Conflicts putting pressure on security agencies – President  

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that the pockets of conflicts occurring in some areas in the country is putting too much pressure on the national security agencies. 

He said there was a rising intolerance in some areas of the country because of disagreements, including chieftaincy and land disputes.  

“You find a traditional area that has been at peace for so many years and a ruler who has been on the stool for decades and then as soon as he dies there is a competition and suddenly a chieftaincy dispute arises out of lack of tolerance and misunderstanding, which sometimes breaks out into violence. It is putting a lot of pressure on our security services,” he stated. 

President Mahama said this during a courtesy call on him by the members of the National Peace Council led by its Chairman Reverend Emmanuel Kofi Fianu. 

The Council was at the Presidency to present a list of challenges hindering its operations to the President for redress. 

He said several of the nation’s security services were tied down in conflict areas such as Sampa in Bono Region, Nkwanta in the Oti Region, and Bawku in the Upper East Region, adding that recently in the Savannah Region, they had a whole contingent there, and yet there were so many of these, all over the country. 

The President explained that these conflicts had to do with ethnic and land disputes, and it had become a major headache for governments, hence the need to resource the Peace Council to be able to carry out its mandate in terms of trying to arbitrate some of these misunderstandings. 

“I am happy that we continue to recognise the blessing God has given us in terms of religious tolerance and religious co-existence. 

He said it was one of the beauties of Ghana that despite the different religions the citizenry continued to live together peacefully. 

Source: GNA 

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