Mr Francis Poku, a former National Security Coordinator says good governance and regime protection gaurantee national security and stability.

"If we are able to ensure good governance, then we wouldn't have problems with threats of violent extremism and radicalism in the country", he stated.

Mr Poku said high unemployment and under-development created dissatisfaction, and thereby undermined national peace and stability.

The former national security coordinator under the former President John Agyekum Kufuor's government was speaking at the Regional Dialogue session on trending conflict issues in Sunyani.

The National Catholic Secretariat organized the day's session, attended by traditional authorities, religious bodies, security services, youth groups, policy implementers, trade associations and Senior High School students.

It was on the theme "trending conflicts in Ghana, fertile grounds for violent extremism: a call for action", and was in line with the Sahel Peace Intitiative project being implemented by the secretariat with funding from the Catholic Relief Services, a non-governmental organisation.

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