National Security Secretariat assesses security threats in Bono Region

The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has organised stakeholders engagement, as the secretariat reviews 2020 National Security Strategy.

Held at Abesim, near Sunyani, the day's engagement attended by Heads of Departments and Agencies, security service, civil society organisations and actors and other relevant stakeholders.

Addressing the meeting, Mr George Loh, the Head of Legal and Compliance Unit of the NSCS highlighted the relevant of the engagement, and asked the participants to make constructive criticisms.

He said that the event was collect inputs and to fine-tune a new national security draft strategy.

Madam Golda Grace Asante, the Bono Regional Coordinating Director lauded the review of the 2020 National Security Strategy.

She said the nation required a new national security strategy that would respond to security threats like violent extremism and terrorism in the Sahel which were also closer to the nation's borders.

Mad Asante noted that crime had become more sophisticated due to advancement in technology, saying that more ought to be dome to tackle cyber and mobile money frauds, online scams, and the growing trend of misinformation.

Sompaonline.com/Stella Kyere