Christoph Rezlaff Being Supported By Dominic Nitiwul To Commission The Defence Intelligence Building Project At Burma Camp in Accra
Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has called on the security agencies to focus on intelligence building for Ghana to survive as a country.
According to him, if Ghana is to survive, there is the need to focus on intelligence building to maintain Ghana’s status as a very stable democratic and peaceful country.
“Government will do everything to support the intelligence community to succeed, including the defence intelligence. Threats facing the world today are complex and shared and its takes effective collaboration at the bilateral and multi lateral levels to defeat the common enemy and it is, therefore, imperative that we synchronise our strategies and procedures to be able to work together towards our set objectives,” he disclosed.
Mr Nitiwul made this known at the commissioning of the Defence Intelligence office complex and the official handing over of German-sponsored projects at Burma Camp in Accra.
He said the edifice is the outcome of an interaction between the Department of Defence Intelligence and the German Armed Forces Technical Assistance Group (GAFTAG).
“It ensured the completion of a stalled structure, which started in 2003 and was intended to be used as an Intelligence Training Centre and office complex,” he revealed.
Mr Nitiwul said under the caption: ‘Enhancing Military Intelligence’, GAFTAG together with GAF, completed all contractual arrangements for the continuation of the project in May this year.
The two-storey building has in it 60-seat auditorium for central lecturers, two 20-seater syndicate rooms, a research library, a language laboratory and offices for chief instructor and his staff.
Again, there is a multi-purpose cyber office where real time information will be analysed, an office for strategic and operational cells, as well as the line directors, deputy director general and the director general.
The German Ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Rezlaff, in an address pointed out that the estimated cost of all projects, including the Defence Intelligence building, amounted to a total value of €1.33 million.
“They include projects with very different focuses that include extensions and refurbishment of engineer training school, the training programme base workshop, the Defence Intelligence project and the establishment of a mobile headquarters for the ECOWAS Standby Force.
“The focus and the scale of the cooperation project between Germany and Ghana shows the significance of our equipment and programmes as a very important pillar and the recent visit by the President of the Federal Republic Of Germany, Mr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has also shown that Germany and Ghana are together in a strong bond of friendship; together we strive for peace, security, stability and prosperity not only in our countries but Africa as a whole,” he stated.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey
(lindatenyah@gmail.com)