President John Dramani Mahama has underscored that security is a shared responsibility and every citizen must play a complementary role to keep the country safe.
He said as citizens, it was important not to perceive the security services as the exclusive institutions responsible for the safety and security of the country, bearing in mind the nature of contemporary threat that confronts the state.
To this end, he urged that citizens, in discharging this complementary duty of helping to safeguard the country's security, did not raise false alarms like the shepherd boy in Aesop's famous fable who cried wolf when there was none. "If we behave like that boy, either for partisan or parochial interests, we distract the attention of our security services from focusing on their critical job of keeping us safe. "Let us support our security services and the Ghana Armed Forces with information that is useful and intelligence that is helpful to advance their work rather than retrogress it," President Mahama rallied.
He made this call in Accra on Friday at the graduation ceremony of the Regular Course 63 into the Ghana Armed Forces.
