Vice President John Dramani Mahama has promised that government would continue to strategize from all angles of development to reduce armed robbery and other criminal activities to the barest minimum.
He said although government had already provided logistics to empower the military, police and other security services to fight and combat crime and other acts of misbehaviour, a lot more strategies would be rolled out in the coming months to ensure a peaceful nation and create a congenial environment for investments and other developmental projects.
"No investor will like to push his or her money in an atmosphere of general insecurity and that is why we as a government are ready to put in everything under our armpit to ensure peace and safety."
Vice President Mahama gave these promises when he addressed the Ghanaian community in Prague, Czech Republic as part of his four-day visit to the country.
Apart from the meeting with the Ghanaian community, the Vice president on tuesday addressed the opening session of the Ghana-Czech Trade and Investment forum, visited Mr Petr Necas, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and President Vaclav Klaus where they held bilateral relations in the areas of urban transport, power generation, electricity transmission and the exploitation of oil and gas.
The Vice President said although armed robbery was taking a global dimension, government would commit everything necessary to fight it to a logical conclussion in order to attract Ghanaians living outside the country to come back to exhibit their professional expertise to propel the developmental agenda of government.
He said his visit to the Czech Republic had equipped him adequately and would as soon as possible invite them to train Ghanaian entrepreneurs in business development, information, Communication and Technology alongside human resource development in the areas of Agriculture and general Engineering.
He said a permanent military barracks had been established in Bawku, due to the volatile situation there and gave the assurance that government would put in more measures to quell tension in all the conflict spots throughout the country.
"Every Ghanaian has the right to live in a state of peace and unity and government would continue to provide the necessary facilities that would ensure that all the freedoms contained in the constitution are properly adhered to."
The Vice President told Ghanaians that, Ghana last year recorded a surplus of 100 tons of maize due mainly to the prudent measures government had adopted and promised to continue to improve for Ghana to become a net food exporter.
Mr. Victor Emmanuel Smith, Ghana's Ambassador to the Czech Republic said he would relate well with the business community to tap their expertise through exchange programmes to enhance better economic relations between the two countries.
Ghanaians in the country asked questions bordering on peace and stability, security, economic investment and the discovery of oil and gas and its repercussions in the country.
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Story: Office Of The Vice President
10/11/10
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