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Government has been advised to equip the nation’s security forces with the needed resources in order to address security threats confronting the country.

The Chief Instructor of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Colonel Dr. Emmanuel Wekem Kotia, who made the call said the need for the security agencies to be well resourced is to enable them “to be alert and to be able to identify security issues.” 

“As a country, the intelligence agency must be resourced and retrained…they must be deployed all around so they can be able to detect any emergency security threat,” Col. Wekem Kotia said. 

Col. Kotia who was speaking at the launch of his book, “Ghana Armed Forces in Lebanon and Liberia Peace Operations,” was optimistic adequate investments will enable Ghana overcome any security threat and also fortify its intelligence gathering.

“…The most important thing is to be alert and to be able to identify these security issues, but with good intelligence we should be able to do that as swiftly as possible.”

His comments comes on the back of reports of some terrorist groups operating in the country.

The National Security coordinator, Mr. Yaw Donkor has confirmed that two university graduates have been recruited into terrorist group, ISIS.

The development has resulted in many people calling for measures to strengthen the operations of the country’s security apparatus.

In a related development, the Chief Instructor has decried the level of involvement of the international community in dealing with crisis situations on the African continent.

He bemoaned the development as not being in the best interest of the sub-region hence the need for the international community to revise its stance in dealing with such challenges.

Citing the Liberia and Rwandan civil wars as classical examples, Col. Wekem Kotia further appealed to the international community to support the efforts of African troops.

“Whatever conflict comes out, the international community should be able to put its arsenals together to support…Liberia’s civil war was the first time a West African organization intervened without any international support.”

“Rwanda’s situation could have been worse had Ghana relented in its support. When every country was withdrawing from the country (Rwanda), Ghana decided that we will stay and help restore peace…this forced the UN to expand its mission,” he stated.