WE ARE POISED TO MAINTAIN PEACE-INTERIOR MINISTRY

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The Ministry for the Interior has given the assurance that it is poised and ready to deliver its core mandate of ensuring that the country remains secured and peaceful before, during and after this year’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

 The Ministry accepts also that any contest particularly in politics and elections come automatically with a lot of heat. 

This should however not degenerate into violence and that the responsibility is for all the people and groups to do their part in keeping the society united and peaceful even after the political contest. 

The Chief Director of the Ministry for the Interior, Mrs. Adelaide Annor-Kumi gave the advice in Kumasi at the first in the series of regional musical contests among the various security services under the Ministry. 

The programme, the 7th edition since its introduction by the Ministry for the Interior, is code-named, “Bands Competition for the Security Agencies” or BACOSA.

 It is a common platform for the Bands of various security services to showcase their musical prowess, not only to entertain their respective staff and members of the general public, but importantly, to create greater public education on the need for all Ghanaians and non-citizen residents in the country to play their part to sustain the prevailing national peace especially as the country enters the electioneering period. 

Residents of Kumasi who thronged the Jubilee Park yesterday evening were thrilled to soothing local music performed by the Prisons Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana National Fire Service and Ghana Police Service with the Ghana Armed Forces Bands as guest musical band. 

The patrons, particularly staff of those services exhibited their dancing skills to the admiration of all. 

This year’s BACOSA is being supported also by the National Peace Council which has realized the significance of the event as one effective peace promotion tool.

 The Chief Director of the Ministry for the Interior, Mrs. Annor-Kumi stressed the fact that Ghana continues to enjoy global recognition as a beacon of peace and democracy in the turbulent sub-region, making all the citizens feel proud of the credential.

 Mrs. Annor-Kumi noted that the security services are united in their commitment to maintaining the peace, security and territorial integrity of Ghana before, during and after the December 7 elections. 

She said it is only in the atmosphere of peace that every law-abiding citizen or organization can continue with his or her legitimate social, economic and political activities. 

There were peace messages by the Ashanti regional heads of all the security services.

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