Security Expert Dr. Kwesi Anning is advocating a change in the strategy of Ghana’s security agencies if they will succeed in stopping young people from joining terrorist groups.
It follows reports that a KNUST graduate Nazir Alema has travelled to join terrorist group, Islamic state in Iraq.
The National Security apparatus is reported to be investigating the issue.
Dr. Anning wants them to adopt a more open, community-based approach instead of operating in secrecy.
He said it was also important for the security agencies to understand the changing security environment in West Africa in order to device more improved ways of dealing with crime.
Dr. Anning is calling on Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lead efforts at stopping terrorist groups from making the sub region a recruiting hub.
“The IS/Boko Haram alliance has become a major security threat to the whole of the sub-region and I think all ECOWAS member states and ECOWAS itself must lead the struggle to ensure radicalisation tendencies are reduced as much as possible”.
Meanwhile, officials of KNUST say they will co-operate with national security to investigate groups on campus suspected to be influencing students to join violent groups.
Public Relations Officer of the university, Ankomah Lomotey says investigations are currently ongoing to ascertain if indeed more students involved in any terrorist acts in the school.
source:myjoyonline
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