E/R Minister leads REGSEC’s engagement with Yilo Krobo Paramountcy ahead of elections

Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong on Thursday, November 21, 2024, led the Eastern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) on a peace campaign tour to Yilo Krobo. The tour formed part of the REGSEC’s mandate to address national and regional security issues with just two weeks to the 2024 general elections.

The minister accompanied by regional security chiefs undertook the peace campaign tour to engage traditional leaders, religious leaders, opinion leaders as well as political players towards ensuring incident-free polls.

Seth Kwame Acheampong addressing members of the traditional council including the Paramount Chief, Oklepem. Nuer Annorbaa Sasraku II, Divisional Chiefs, Asawatseme and Queen Mothers, noted that the Regional Security Council whose mission has been to protect lives and maintain public safety and peace, decided to involve all players as the country gears up for the 2024 elections.

“For some time now, we’ve been reviewing what comes before us and when we juxtapose that, the political conversations going around, we thought it prudent to get closer to our people and engage stakeholders,” the Minister noted.

According to Mr. Acheampong, peace remains an invaluable asset, especially in the run-up to the elections to ensure that Ghana continues to be used as a yardstick for elections in other countries.

The Regional Minister pointed out: “The mission is just to preach peace so that the forthcoming elections will be held in a peaceful atmosphere and there’ll be no fights among competitors.”

He appealed to the traditional council and other stakeholders including the clergy, Imams, opinion leaders, amongst others to ensure peace before, during and after the 2024 general elections.

On his part, the Paramount Chief of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Area, Oklepeme Nuer Annorbaa Sasraku II pledged the Paramountcy’s support to the peace campaign by engaging the citizenry.

He bemoaned the monetization of Ghanaian politics by the two leading political parties including the NPP and NDC.

Oklepeme said chiefs must be allowed to play their neutral role in the Ghanaian political space and decried the phenomenon of ascribing political colours to traditional leaders who seek to national issues.

Divisional Chief of Okper, Nene Anyeenorgu Teye Agor IX, urged the security forces to deal fairly and firmly with offenders of the law irrespective of their political affiliation to send the right signal to the citizenry.

He urged them to avoid selectivity in dealing with miscreants as this could detail the confidence in the system.

The security chiefs who accompanied the Minister included Lt. Col Frank Adams, Commanding Officer, 1BN, DCOI Hussein Awal Mohammed, 2IC Regional Command, Ghana Immigration Service, DOII Amos Kaku-kyi, Regional Operations Commander, GNFS, Col. Michael Boampong (Rtd), Regional Security Coordinator, CRO Samuel Tsadie-Mensah, 2IC, Customs, Supt. Sam Inkoom, Regional Crime Officer, Mrs Nana Adwoa K. Eleazar-Doku, Regional Commander, NIB.