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The Deputy Minister for the Interior, Hon. Henry Quartey, has sworn in a thirteen member Greater Accra Peace Council with a charge to establish and strengthen collaboration with security agencies, governance institutions, traditional authorities, civil society organisations, especially faith-based organisations to facilitate the attainment of sustainable peace in the country. The Minister alluded that Regional Peace Councils are essential in conflict resolution since most conflicts are local in nature, thus requiring local early warning mechanisms as well as local human and material resources to promptly respond to the conflicts. According to the Minister, The task of peacebuilding is a...

The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery, has urged Religious Leaders in the West Africa sub-region to fight the menace of money laundering and financing of terrorism. He said this at the opening of the National Sensitization Seminar for High-Level Religious Leaders and Institutions on Implementing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism held in Accra on July 18, 2018. In a speech read on his behalf by the Deputy Minister for the Interior, Mr. Henry Quartey, he stated that, the surge in acts of terrorism and other organized crime within the sub-region could be attributed to the availability...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his government intends, in the next few months, to establish a National Cyber Security Centre, as has been done in some other countries, to liaise with relevant state agencies and the private sector to oversee cyber security operations at the national level.According to President Akufo-Addo, the national identification system, the digital addressing system, e-payments, digital financial services and the various e-government initiatives in which Ghana is now taking so much pride, can be brought to a halt or undermined by cybercrime.Cyber-security issues, the President added, are now firmly national...

The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery has urged the Ministry of the Interior’s Entity Tender Committee to exhibit a high level of integrity and professionalism in the discharge of its duties. The Committee is also expected to avoid conflict of interest whilst it executive its mandate. These were reiterated by the Mr. Dery after he had sworn in the newly constituted Entity Tender Committee in Accra on Monday, September 18, 2017. According to the Minister, the Entity Tender Committee (ETC) is a high level governance committee tasked with the mandate to protect the public purse whilst ensuring...

A 9- member Audit Committee for the Ministry of the Interior has been inaugurated in accordance with section 86 of the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921) to advise the Ministry on sound, transparent and reliable financial management practices in Accra on Tuesday, August 29,2017. The Committee would also pursue the implementation of recommendations contained in both the internal and external audit reports as well as Parliament’s decision on the Auditor General’s report. Addressing the Committee after the swearing, Mr. Ambrose Dery, Minister for the Interior intimated that, the inauguration was in line with Government’s commitment to protect...