Illegal Lumbering, Boundary Disputes Threat to Peace in Ahafo Region-National Peace Council

National Peace Council is working assiduously to resolve threats in the Ahafo Region to extend the peaceful co-existing among the people.

Illegal Lumbering, Boundary Disputes Threat to Peace in Ahafo Region-National Peace Council
National Peace Council

The National Peace Council has identified illegal lumbering, political violence, Galamsey, Chieftaincy/boundary disputes as the biggest threats to peace in Ahafo Region.

They also cited Infrastructural development including bad roads, access roads, and youth unemployment as part of the threat.

In the view of the Ahafo Regional Chairman of National Peace Council, Most Rev. Peter Kwaku Atuahene, Bishop of Goaso Catholic Diocese, said National Peace Council is working assiduously to resolve these threats to peace in the Ahafo Region to extend the peaceful co-existing among the people.

Most Rev. Peter Kwaku Atuahene was speaking to Soireenews Sulley Dramani at the International Peace on the theme: "Recovering better for an equilateral and Sustainable World" in Goaso.

The Deputy Ahafo Regional Police Commander, ACP Andrews Boadu-Ekumah said despite these threats of peace in the region, the crime rate has reduced drastically especially political violence citing the 2020 general election as a point of call.

Sulley Dramani, Ahafo Region