By Felix Cofie
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, says protecting Ghana’s territorial and maritime boundaries is key to our survival as a country and to our development.
Speaking during a familiarisation tour of the Ghana Boundary Commission, he said the Commission has made significant headway in discussions aimed at managing and protecting Ghana’s land and maritime boundaries.
The Minister further indicated that emerging security threats confronting the West African sub-region provide compelling grounds for the Commission to collaborate with sister institutions in the sub-region to intensify safeguarding the country’s territorial integrity.
“Per their mandate, GhBC is to reaffirm, delimit, and demarcate Ghana’s international land and maritime boundaries. And realisation of this mandate has far reaching implications on the territorial integrity and stability and peace of Ghana as well as the West African sub-region,” he noted.
“I have been impressed with the level of work so far by GhBC. Although there are challenges, but let me assure you Government remains committed to resolving them,” he added.
Mr. Jinapor reaffirmed the Government’s resolve to make available resources and personnel to make the Commission fit the contemporary challenges it is facing.
“We are determined to have the resources, chemical resources, and minerals resources. The Lands and maritime boundaries of our country will be firmly demarcated, delimited, and reaffirmed, and that’s the mandate of the GhBC, and I’m determined to do that,” he stressed.
The National Coordinator of the Ghana Boundary Commission, Major General Emmanuel Kotia, intimated that his office will collaborate with the Ministry to safeguard the boundaries and fend off all forms of illegal activities on the boundaries.
