Ghana’s Deputy Minister for the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Bernice Heloo, has garnered a one million man war against ecological threats and sea piracy in Africa.
Officials of the Kofi-Annan International Peace-keeping Training Centre, also in Ghana, led by Emma Birikorang, a research fellow, have indicated interest in joining forces with Heloo to make the war a huge success, commending the advocacy role in ensuring peace, security and development in Africa.
The ‘war’, according to the National Coordinator of the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice, Nigeria, Comrade Sheriff Mulade; and the Editor-in-Chief of the NGO’s academic publication, the Peace and Environment Africa Journal, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, would commence from Bayelsa State, where it would spread to other parts of the continent.
CEJEP’s National Coordinator in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on Monday said Heloo would pilot the Peace and Environment Seminar, tagged “Bayelsa 2013”, organized by CEJEP in collaboration with the Bayelsa State Government.
According to Mulade, when officials of CEJEP, a Non-Governmental Organization, visited the Minister in Accra, Ghana, during the its peacekeeping training, to woo her into leading the war, billed to hold in Yenagoa, the capital city of Bayelsa State, Heloo was quoted to have agreed to be the warlord when she concurred to the lead paper titled: Towards Eradicating Ecological Threats and Sea Piracy Challenges in Africa.
She was said to have appealed to the authorities of KAIPTC to partner with CEPEJ towards finding a lasting solution to the numerous communal crises, ecological threats and crimes confronting the African continents.
On the choice of Heloo, Mulade said it was with a view to tapping her benefits for Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta region, where there is a serious threat to ecological system and healthy communal living.
While Mulade hinted that the authorities of KAIPTC and CEPEJ have swung into serious working relationship and were working out modalities of collaboration towards mitigating the ecological and security challenges facing the African continent, he said the collaboration became necessary “to maximize the strengths of both bodies for the benefits of African countries, Ghana and Nigeria in particular.”
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