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The UK\u2019s High Commissioner to Ghana has stated that her country\u2019s fate is tied to that of Ghana.<\/p>\n
According to her, it is in the United Kingdom\u2019s interest to support Ghana in all aspects of its development, security.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Harriet Thompson said this in an interview with Emefa Apawu in a yet to be aired interview on The Probe <\/strong>on the JoyNews <\/strong>channel on Sunday.<\/p>\n The discussion covered various issues ranging from her personal interests to security issues.<\/p>\n Touching on security, she said the UK\u2019s interest in Ghana\u2019s security is multifaceted.<\/p>\n \u201cOur two countries have this strong bond between them and so what matters to Ghana matters to UK. It\u2019s also because those security challenges that affect Ghana affect the UK as well. So I have just talked about cocaine smuggling it causes harm to Ghana it causes harm to UK. Illegal migration causes harm to Ghana, it causes harm in UK,\u201d the High Commissioner said.<\/p>\n Her comments follow recent concerns over Ghana\u2019s preparedness for a possible terrorist attack.<\/p>\n In July, the Head of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Professor Kwesi Aning revealed that Ghana is not adequately prepared to withstand any terrorist attack.<\/p>\n According to the security expert, the country\u2019s planned preparedness against terrorist attack is \u2018zero\u2019.<\/p>\n Meanwhile government, working through the National Security Ministry has instituted various measures to counter any terrorist attacks. The \u201csee something, say something\u201d initiative is one of such measures.<\/p>\n High Commissioner Harriet Thompson said from where she sits, government is doing what has to be done and the UK is offering the needed support. <\/p>\n \u201cWe recently had the second of our ministerial level security dialogue meetings in London, which brought together a range of law enforcement agencies and representatives of government from both sides. And it covered diverse subjects from military through intelligence, counter-terrorism, borders, illegal migration, organised crime, financial crime etc and the reason for having that forum is that it helps to keep us focused. There is so much our two countries could do together because our relationship is so deep and still trusting and strong. We have to focus on the areas that we agree are the priorities for us to work on,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n She mentioned counter-terrorism as one of the key areas because the effect of this phenomenon is mutual.<\/p>\n \u201cExtremism in the region has a potential to do great harm to Ghana, it has the potential to do harm to the UK. So it is about shared challenges,\u201d Mrs. Thompson noted.<\/p>\n Specifically on cocaine smuggling, she said, \u201cThe data around that is very hard. If your data shows that the levels of drug being seized are going down, is that good? Because it means there are less drug amounts or it is bad because you are seizing less of it?\u2019 she queried.<\/p>\n According to Mrs. Thompson it is very hard to tell, hence \u201cthe approach we have taken is to continue to treat it as a priority and to keep building that rich picture to understand what\u2019s going on beneath the numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UK\u2019s High Commissioner to Ghana has stated that her country\u2019s fate is tied to that of Ghana. According to her, it is in the United Kingdom\u2019s interest to support Ghana in all aspects of its development, security. Mrs. Harriet Thompson said this in an interview with Emefa Apawu in a yet to be aired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[5281,1923,6774,85,2158,2177],"class_list":["post-1192089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-affect","tag-challenges","tag-commissioner","tag-ghana","tag-high","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192089","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=1192089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}