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<\/p>\nPresident John Dramani Mahama has assured Ghanaians in Scotland, that his government is working hard to protect the citizenry from \u00a0possible terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n
According to the President, the national Security Council has assessed the threat that terrorists pose to Ghana in the wake of recent attacks in the West African sub-region.<\/p>\n
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Addressing Ghanaians living in Scotland as part of his four-day tour of that country, the President said the threat levels cannot be discounted and government is doing everything possible to protect her people from any attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncreasingly, the threat of terrorism is an issue that we need to pay attention to. We had a national Security Council meeting few days ago, just before I left to come here, and we are assessing the threat, the threat that terrorism poses to our sub-region.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe countries around Lake Chad have been battling with Boko Haram for some time now and then recently as a result of the destabilization in North Africa, a lot of weapons and arms have infiltrated into the Sahelean area. It\u2019s become a bit of lawless area so Northern Mali, Southern Algeria, Southern Libya and that whole Sahelean belt has become a very problematic area and we are beginning to see the results stretching far down as West Africa. You know what happened in Bamako, two months later it occurred in Burkina Faso and just last weekend it happened in Abidjan.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo it just means that the threat level is something we cannot discount so government is doing everything possible to ensure that our people are safe and secured,\u201d President Mahama added.<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n