Peace campaign launched in Accra
The Minister of Interior, Mr Prosper Bani, has asked Ghanaians to resist individuals who made it their goal to divide the nation.
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He said Ghana had come a long way to allow the ambitions of an individual or a group of people to drive the country into chaos.
In a speech read on his behalf at the launch of a peace campaign in Accra last Monday, Mr Bani said there was nothing destructive than people with resources who intended to use them to further their course.
"The peace of this country is more important than what each one of us craves to achieve," he said.
The peace campaign, which would take place from September 23 to 25, this year, is being organised by the Scout and Guild Fellowship Ghana, a non-governmental organisation.
Dubbed the "Peace Gathering," the three-day programme seeks to train and educate more than 2,000 peace ambassadors to lead the campaign for peaceful elections and sensitise the public to be law-abiding
Legal system
Mr Bani said there was, therefore, the need for Ghanaians to have confidence in the country's legal system and not to take the laws into their own hand.
He said the perception that the legal system was being used as a government tool was not true, adding that Ghana's legal system was formidable enough to ensure justice to all.
According to Mr Bani, the problem in Ghana was that people preferred to use inappropriate channels to address their grievances.
Be responsible
The National President of Scout and Guild Fellowship, Mr Albert Botchway, said the rationale behind the peace campaign was to inculcate the idea of peace into everybody so that they would become responsible for it.
"The public must be made to know that peace doesn't come cheap and that they all have a role in it," he said.
Mr Botchway said it would be extremely inappropriate for people to sit down and fold their arms and think that peace was guaranteed.
"We must work for it to achieve peaceful elections," he added.