LOOK OUT FOR ILLEGAL ARMS-REGIONAL MINISTER TASKS MMDCEs

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Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Security Council, REGSEC, Peter Anarfi-Mensah has entreated all the 30 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Security Committees and the Chief Executives in the region to be on a high alert to detect any unregistered arms or ammunition that may be in their respective jurisdictions. 

The MMDCEs in particular must work closely with state security agencies in the districts so as to totally or reduce to the bearest minimum availability of such deadly weapons that may be in wrong hands that is a major threat to the security and safety of the residents. 

Mr. Anarfi-Mensah who is also the Ashanti Regional Minister, gave the directive at his maiden Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council, RCC, Meeting held in Kumasi.

 The RCC is composed of all the MMDCEs, Presiding Members, representatives of the Regional House of Chiefs and all Heads of government’s Departments and Agencies. 

The REGSEC Chairman’s directive to the MMDCEs follows the retrieval of a significant quantity of highly sophisticated arms and ammunition from a private house at Akwatialine in Kumasi and the arrest of a 72-year of Burkinabe, Moro Sata, as an illegal arms dealer about a week ago. 

The Regional Minister said even though crime rate in the Ashanti region, especially the capital, has reduced appreciably recently, there is still the need for a concerted effort to ensure that the society is rid of any potential threat to security more especially next year when both the Presidential and Parliamentary elections will be held. 

Mr. Anarfi-Mensah was also worried that the defiance of local people as collaborators in illegal mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ is making both national and regional security efforts extremely difficult. 

This is mainly because the local people involved in such serious problem are oblivious of the magnitude of future effects that ‘galamsey’ will have on the people on current and future generations. 

Mr. Anarfi-Mensah therefore appealed to traditional leaders in the concerned areas across the region to bring to bear their influence on the perpetrators to nib the canker in the bud.

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