The Interior Minister has informed President John Mahama of the Ministry’s plan to build a permanent office facility for the National Peace Council, to be known as the “Peace House”.
This, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak said, was to serve as a legacy project during President Mahama’s tenure.
Alhaji Mohammed-Mubarak made the disclosure to the President during the swearing-in of a 13-Member reconstituted Governing Board of the National Peace Council at the Presidency in Accra.
The 13-member reconstituted National Peace Council, which is under the Chairpersonship of Reverend Father Emmanuel Kofi Fianu, the Catholic Bishop of Ho Diocese, is made of 10 men and three women.
The National Peace Council is an independent statutory national peace institution established by the eight hundred and eighteenth (818) Act of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana, named The National Peace Council Act, 2011.
The core function of the Council is to prevent, manage, and resolve conflict and to build sustainable peace.
Alhaji Mohammed-Mubarak said the National Peace Council, since its establishment, had been working hard to achieve its mandate particularly in sustaining the peace of the country.
He said consecutively, over the last decade except the year 2023, Ghana had been ranked the most peaceful country in West Africa.
Adding that Ghana, though ranks the fourth most peaceful country in Africa, there was more room for improvement.
Credit: joyonline