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Security was strengthened in the Upper West region following the arrest of a Burkinabe gunman in front of a Catholic church in Hamile on Sunday.
A church member provoked the arrest of the man who would have been in his fifties after noticing the gun on him before the office.
The brave man told Joy News that he had found the Burkinabe rather suspicious after inquiring about the denomination of the church.
During further interrogations, however, the gun was noticed. Quietly, not wanting to cause panic because the worship had already begun, he called another friend who had helped to send the Burkinabe to the police station.
The man told the police that he had come to Hamile to cultivate.
He was arrested at the police headquarters in Jirapa, in the far western region, while investigations continued.
Ghana is on high alert as a result of terrorist attacks against its neighbors. Authorities strengthen security at the Ghanaian border, while a Salafi-jihadist group based in Burkina Faso attacked and killed residents in February.
On February 15, 2019, militants killed four Burkinabe customs officers at a checkpoint in Nohao, near the border with Ghana, and burned three vehicles. They also killed a Spanish priest. Many of these attacks also took place last month.
The security situation in Burkina Faso, Ghana's neighbor to the north, remains unstable, as thousands of Burkinabe residents flock to Ghanaian villages after unrest.
The African Center for Security and Intelligence Studies (ACSIS) also issued a security alert indicating that the Salafi-jihadist group had moved to Ghana through the border with Burkina Faso in recent months.
Upper West West Regional Minister Hafiz Bin Salih said security was being strengthened in the region.
The revelation comes after a meeting of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) attended by church leaders from the region.
Dr. Salih said that a formed police unit and a contingent of air force military personnel at Tamale had been brought in to prevent any disaster.
"The Upper West region is safe and we have put in place measures to ensure the safety of our citizens."
He added that the arrival of Burkina Faso nationals to Ghana and their settlement in Ghana was not a novelty: "It has not started today and yesterday. They began to enter the country and to settle there for a long time.
"There are people along the border town who gave them land on which they can settle and bend, so it's not as if everything had started yesterday and we panic. Some of them have been living in some communities for three or four years. "
Despite this, Dr. Salih said that the government was doing everything in its power to ensure the safety of the people of the Upper West "and that the peace they enjoyed continued to exist".
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