The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) says it has become prudent to educate and enlighten Ghanaians on violent extremism and terrorism in the area.
She said, in recent times, extremist attacks are pervasive and present across the nation.
Speaking to Citi News, Kathleen Addy, the chair of the NCCE, urged the government to provide resources for the commission so that it can educate Ghanaians in other regions of the country.
She also noted that “as part of the government’s effort to protect the security of citizens, it has signed an agreement with the European Union dubbed Preventing and Containing Violent Extremism to sensitize locals in the five regions in the North on the existential threat of extremism.”
“Today, we signed an agreement with the European Union where we benefit from an amount of €1.7 million that should take us eighteen months to conclude a project on preventing and containing violent extremism.
“However, we from the NCCE started working on this project last year, and we undertook the North Presec, a project also funded by the EU focused on the Northern part of Ghana to create awareness so that people will understand the nature of the threats that we face.”
“So we implore the government that though this project is focused on the Northern part of the country, we all know that the problem is all over, there are communities in different parts of the country where the threats are even more real. So we are asking that we will be resourced to be able to spread the project to other parts of the country and not limit it to the northern part and the border regions.”