Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said, conflict from the Sahel to West African coastal countries is causing the region to spend more on security.
President Akufo-Addo noted that the conflict has moved from the Sahel, inexorably, to the West African coastal countries, with all of Ghana’s neighbors suffering terrorist attacks, with some losing territorial space to the invading forces.
He made the pronouncement at the United Nations General Assembly, on Wednesday, 21st September, in New York.
“the terrorist pressure has provided a pretext for the unhappy reappearance of military rule in three (3) of the fifteen (15) member ECOWAS Community, two (2) of whom have borne the brunt of the terrorist outrages in the Region – Mali and Burkina Faso”.
He said, “All of us in the Region are being forced to spend huge amounts of money on security. This is money we should be spending on educating and giving skills to our young people; on building much-needed roads, bridges, hospitals, and other such infrastructure, which we are spending to fight terrorists or to keep them out from destabilizing our countries.”
President Akufo-Addo described it, as a global problem, that deserves the attention of the world community for a global solution.
Source: Apexnewgh.com
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