The National Peace Council has begun engagements with the nation’s security agencies and political heads to address the deteriorating rate of peace in the country.

The Board Chairman, Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu Gyamfi tells JoyNews the meetings have become necessary after the country slipped two places on the global peace index.

The report by the Institute of Economics and Peace also highlighted an economic loss to the country to the tune of over 10 billion dollars.

As disturbing as it may sound, Rev. Dr. Adu Gyamfi says measures have been put in place to ensure the peace of the nation is not derailed.

Speaking on JoyNews’ The Pulse on Thursday, Rev. Dr Adu Gyamfi said “From our perspective, as a council, there must continually be public education. We just ended a dialogue between the political parties and the police service. We did one earlier on with the whole security in February, we’ve done a follow up the last few days.

“We keep reviewing all these things that we see in the country and keep on educating ourselves so that everybody understands where we are, and what we ought to do. And how we have to handle the country to make the country as peaceful as it ought to be.”

He went on to say that there is a lot of work being done underground to try to mitigate some of the challenges that the country is facing in terms of peace and security.

While the underground works are underway, he believes there is a need to educate the public on the use of social media because it is a difficult platform.

He explained that comments being put out on social media give a certain perception about the country.

He, therefore cautioned social media users to be mindful of the content they post about the country.

“…Our citizens outside feel from the news they read as if the country is almost burning. So we tell them that look, what you are hearing is not true. So there is a certain perception out there because people are writing all kinds of things on social media. So these perceptions are also received by these evaluators who are outside the country, they are also reading from the internet,” he said.