Wa, Dec 28, - The Upper West
Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has set up a Regional Security Fund to
bolster activities of the Council to deal with robbery and general insecurity
in Ghana’s poorest region.
The Security Council has also
programmed to sensitise a number of communities, particularly those along the
highways, by assisting them to set up Neighbourhood Watch Committees to help
stem rising criminal activities in the Region.
“REGSEC has set up a Regional
security fund to support the series of activities that have been lined up to
deal with insecurity in the region,” Alhaji Alhassan Sulemana, the Regional
Minister who is also Chairman of REGSEC,
told Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) members Wednesday.
He said a committee has been
established by REGSEC to manage the fund and are expected to report to the RCC
from time to time about it utilisation and sustenance.
He expressed appreciation to the
Upper West branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union for being the first
to contribute to the Fund.
“I must acknowledge that GPRTU is
the first to contribute to this fund,” he said: “I therefore wish to appeal to
all well-meaning Ghanaians, assemblies, organisations and the general public to
contribute to this worthy course.”
Alhaji Sulemana said security
remained a paramount ingredient for the necessary development of any society to
take place and therefore appealed to the people to play their part in crime
prevention and reduction by providing the police with information on criminal
activities.
He reported that the Region was
peaceful throughout the year, except some disagreements relating to enskinments
of chiefs in local communities.
“We wish to appeal to the
region’s house of chiefs and the various traditional councils to get these
disagreements addressed before they degenerate into full blown conflicts,” he
said.
The REGSEC chairman said cases of
robbery especially on the highways were swiftly dealt by the security personnel
who quickly came in with intensified patrols and police visibility.
“This has resulted in the
reduction of robbery of late,” he said: “In fact, some of the notorious
criminals are in the grips of the law enforcement authorities.”
The region is collaborating
through joint meetings and personnel deployment in joint patrols with the
Northern REGSEC to fight robberies along the highways.
Municipal and District Chief
Executives who responded to various questions about the security situation in
their areas said there was general peace except some pockets of disputes which
were being resolved peacefully.
They also reported the districts
have joint operations in their common areas identified as hotspot for criminal
activities to tame the tide of insecurity to allow people to go about freely in
their daily lives and do businesses.
GNA
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