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Academic City hosts maiden fireside chat on “The concept of terrorism, those behind it and the need for student awareness”
Ghana’s premium STEM and Entrepreneurial tertiary institution, Academic City has hosted its first fireside chat on the topic “The concept of Terrorism, those behind it and the need for student awareness”.
The event was organized and produced by the school’s Acity Radio and had prominent resource persons from Ghana’s security agencies sharing knowledge on how to detect, and prevent terrorism.
In a panel conversation, Chief Superintendent Michael Amoako Attah – Head of Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Immigration Service, Daniel Obeng Boakye – Analyst at National Counter-Terrorism Fusion Centre of the National Security, DSP Dr Debrah Silase – Director, National Counter Terrorism Department of the Ghana Police Service and Commander Philip Odoi-Narh – Acting Director, Strategic Intelligence Department of Defence Intelligence of the Ghana Armed Forces shared various strategies their organizations have put in place to prepare Ghana for potential acts of terrorism.
Commander Philip Odoi-Narh in his closing remarks highlighted the four pillars that created Ghana’s National Counterterrorism Framework. He encouraged citizens to be aware of how to Prevent, Preempt, Protect, and Respond to terrorism threats.
On the part of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Dr. Debrah Silase said the recent praises his outfit has been receiving from Ghanaians would influence their professionalism in dealing with terrorism threats and attacks.
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The Acity Radio Fireside Conversation is an inter-university dialogue forum where national and international topics are discussed. The platform allows young people and students to engage in practical debates about critical issues and provide constructive proposals for preventing or resolving problems on a national or continental scale.
For its maiden edition, students and student representatives from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, Central University and Academy City University College took part in a discussion and raised points about the impact terrorism has on students and a country as a whole. In their ideas for preventing terrorism, they called for their fellow students to be on the alert and “see something, say something”.
The student reps raised concerns about terrorist groups scouting for young members through social media and advised their colleagues to use social media carefully to avoid being targeted.
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Academic City is a premium STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) and Entrepreneurial tertiary institution set to define modern tertiary education in Ghana and throughout the African continent. The University seeks to be a world-class centre for teaching, learning, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship that nurtures future African leaders.
Since inception, Academic City has proven its resolve to change the narrative for higher education in Africa and is committed to providing the best education attainable anywhere in the world. Our fully digitized state-of-the-art campus is located in Accra, Ghana’s capital where we offer undergraduate degree programme in Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration and Communication Arts.
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