Mahama slams Immigration over detailed terror alert

President John Dramani Mahama has expressed disappointment in the country’s national security apparatus for circulating what he calls detailed security intelligence on possible terrorists attack on the country.

Although the security alert was an internal memo to all security agencies, a copy of it was leaked to the media.

In the alert, it was confirmed that a possible terrorist attack on Ghana was real, following the confessions of a suspected Malian terrorist being interrogated.

He is said to be the brain behind the Grand Bassam attacks in Cote D’Ivoire.

According to the report, Ghana and Togo are the next targets after the attacks in Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire.

The choice of Ghana according to the report is to take away the perception that only francophone countries are the target.

In the alert, it was also revealed that Ghana’s National Security has declared as high risk travelers from Libya, Mali and Niger following “real” threats of terrorist attacks on the country.

But speaking on Koforidua-based Sunrise FM, during his ‘Accounting to the People tour,’ President Mahama wondered why the internal security alert memo revealed details of the possible threat on the country.

“Unfortunately, in the signal that went to the regional security councils, whoever wrote it indicated the intelligence that National Security was dealing with and I think that was not necessary. You didn’t need to put the Intel in there, you just needed to send a directive asking for alertness and asking them to search more thoroughly vehicles and all that…”

Let’s be calm

The President however asked Ghanaians to remain calm saying there is no need to panic over the terror alert. He emphasized the need for Ghana to be ready to deal with any possible terrorist attack that might occur.

“I think that we must deal with this without creating panic among our people and that is why the stories that we see in the papers are most unfortunate.”

“There was a signal from National Security asking the regional security councils and others to be on the alert in the event of possible threats. Earlier, we had held a National Security meeting and we had issued a statement and said that because of what had happened, all West African countries were at risk and we believe that all West African countries are at risk .Indeed, no country is safe anywhere in the world and so we need to be alert and prepared for any such eventuality. “

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