{"id":1191667,"date":"2022-08-26T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/26\/akufo-addo-tightens-up-security-at-borders-with-standby-force\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:24:25","slug":"akufo-addo-tightens-up-security-at-borders-with-standby-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/26\/akufo-addo-tightens-up-security-at-borders-with-standby-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo tightens up security at borders with \u2018standby force\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Akufo-Addo tightens up security at borders with \u2018standby force\u2019\" title=\"Akufo-Addo tightens up security at borders with \u2018standby force\u2019\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced the deployment of additional resources to Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso in order to prevent the country from becoming a battleground for terrorist activities.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced the formation of a \u201cstandby force\u201d to fight the insurgencies.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Akufo-Addo, only a strong collaboration between citizens and security agencies can help defeat insurgents who have prioritised Ghana as the next target for attacks hence the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut even within our limited means, the standby force is being created. The various nations that I\u2019ve mentioned to be able to also give us some robust capacity to meet the terrorists. That is the major security preoccupation for all of us along the coasts. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1332023131&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is better for us to spend limited amount of money we have now defending ourselves against the penetration rather than allowing it to take foot and then, of course, you\u2019re involved in the huge expenditures and huge damage to the population and to the economy, etc.,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The President made this comment while addressing a visiting United States of America Congress Committee on Foreign Relations visiting some African countries.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo also identified the source of the terrorist influx into the West African region.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, after the death of Gadaffi, the terrorists \u201ccrossed the Sahara, and found refuge in the northern parts of Mali that\u2019s over many 10 years ago, and since then, they\u2019ve been systematically waging a war in Mali which is now spread across the entire Sahara \u2013Niger, Burkina Faso, and is now also come southwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President noted that there has been \u201cterrorist outrages in Togo which is our Eastern neighbor, we\u2019ve had terrorist outrages in Cote d\u2019Ivoire and could give one which is our Western nation, and Burkina Faso, which is our northern neighbor is now almost the epicenter, apart from Mali, the jihadist resurrection in West Africa so the issue of security is primarily for us with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced the deployment of additional resources to Ghana\u2019s border with Burkina Faso in order to prevent the country from becoming a battleground for terrorist activities. He also announced the formation of a \u201cstandby force\u201d to fight the insurgencies. According to President Akufo-Addo, only a strong collaboration between citizens and security agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,5144,1886,2177,15067,24491],"class_list":["post-1191667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akufoaddo","tag-borders","tag-force","tag-security","tag-standby","tag-tightens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}