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Bono’s regional minister, Justina Owusu-Banahene, has called on the Regional Peace Council to intensify efforts to devise realistic strategies to address protracted leadership disputes in the region.
“We must work together to identify and address the remote causes of long-standing leadership disputes that threaten the peace of the region,” he said.
Such disputes, he said, delay progress and called for effective collaboration between the Regional Security Council, the Peace Council and the Regional Chamber of Chiefs to resolve all misunderstandings.
Madame Owusu-Banahene said this when the Regional Peace Council paid her a courtesy visit in Sunyani.
He said peace remained a prerequisite for development and urged stakeholders to take preventive measures to curb it, rather than allowing disputes to escalate into conflicts and violence that impact the area’s socio-economic growth.
Issues such as land disputes had great potential to disturb the peace, the minister said, calling for collaboration with the Land Commission to help resolve land disputes.
He assured the Peace Council of his willingness and commitment to support him in all his activities.
The Executive Secretary of the Bono Regional Peace Council, Suallah Abdalah Quandah, led the Regional Minister through the activities of the Council and hoped that the Regional Coordinating Council would support his office in addressing potential conflicts that threatened the peace in the region.
He congratulated the regional minister on her appointment and asked people to support her to improve the development of the region.
