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President Akufo-Addo with members of the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons at the Jubilee House in Accra
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo urged the National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons to pay special attention to the proliferation of small arms and light weapons manufactured in the country and to tackle the problem.
He explained that the national manufacture of small arms did not attract critical attention because of the tendency to believe that all illegal small arms in the country were being smuggled into the country.
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President Akufo-Addo made the appeal when members of the commission paid him a courtesy call at Jubilee House on Tuesday 27 November 2018.
According to him, it remained a fact that domestic, but not sophisticated, weapons-making facilities were still part of Ghana's security architecture and did not seem to attract much attention.
The situation, he said, required the necessary concentration and measures to control the proliferation of small arms and light weapons.
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He commissioned the commission to work with the central government to educate and educate the population on small arms and help control those who made them.
Threat
President Akufo-Addo said that all development projects and socio-economic advances, policies and the progress of work of the private sector and civil society would have no impact whatsoever. There was a state of insecurity and a conflict of arms.
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He observed that Ghana was sandwiched in a subregion flooded by an increasing number of illegal weapons, a situation that fueled the conflicts, including jihadist insurgencies that could be seen in northern Nigeria, Chad and Mali.
The President said that Ghanaians should be thankful to God that these conflicts had not invaded Ghana and stressed the need for the country to work hard for the necessary measures to keep the conflict out of its borders are effective.
He described the Commission as a very important institution whose work was of great importance and congratulated the members for having agreed to work in this area.
The treaties
President Akufo-Addo noted that, apart from the ECOWAS instruments, Ghana had signed a dozen or so other international treaties, some of which had not yet been domesticated.
The government, he said, was putting in place measures and mechanisms to reintegrate these treaties and put an end to cases where treaties were signed but not domesticated, even after decades.
He urged members of the commission to continue their work, saying their enthusiasm should not be diminished because of the challenges they faced, their work being crucial to state security.
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Pastor Paul Frimpong Manso, chairman of the commission's board, said the commission was of the opinion that it was time to review the existing arms control legislation.
He indicated that the commission was taking steps in this direction and would submit a draft law on arms and ammunition in due course through the Ministry of the Interior for consideration by the Cabinet.
The bill, he said, would address the gaps in Ghana's arms and ammunition control and expressed the hope that the Cabinet would receive the necessary attention.
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