A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Professor Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu says Ghana must nurture resilience against any situation that has the potential to create division, thus compromising the peace and stability of the country.
She said Ghana must nurture a tolerable degree of resilience to withstand any form of stress that will break up its sense of unity and invite war mongers, human vultures and despicable characters from changing our way of life in favor of commercial profits for themselves.
At the annual Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture organized as part of the 75th Anniversary celebrations of the University of Ghana, held on the theme Resilience, Technology and Humanism, Justice Mensa-Bonsu said some of Ghana’s neighbors which experienced such conflicts are still battling the herculean task of recovering and rebuilding after years of chaos and instability due to the lack of resilience.
She also touched on how these armed conflicts compromised law and order, the safety of citizens and created an atmosphere of survival difficulties for ordinary citizens caught in it.
The Supreme Court Judge, therefore, suggested the urgent need for the country to take practical steps to avoid such outcomes from occurring.
Citing some data from the 2021 population census, she pointed to existing vulnerabilities such as increasing urban poverty, growing inequalities and youth unemployment which she said create an atmosphere to breed such armed conflicts.
