The Deputy Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and
Innovation, Accra Ghana, Dr. Bernice Heloo has called on all stakeholders to participate
in the Peace and Environment Seminar tagged “Bayelsa 2013”, organized by the
Center for Peace and Environmental Justice in collaboration with the Bayelsa
State government. She made this call when officials of the Center for Peace and
Environmental Justice had earlier visited her Ministry in Accra Ghana to
solicit for her participation at the Bayelsa 2013 seminar.
Dr. Heloo said her
Ministry was convinced that CEPEJ is a serious-minded and focused NGO, and
promised to be in Bayelsa State for the environment seminar to deliver the lead
paper on the topic “Towards Eradicating Ecological Threats and Sea Piracy
Challenges in Africa.”
The Environment minister appealed to the authorities of Kofi Annan
International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) to partner with CEPEJ
towards finding a lasting solution to the numerous communal crises, ecological
threats and crimes confronting the African continents.
The move follows the visit of CEPEJ officials to the Peace Keeping training
Institute in Accra recently, to study the structure of the Centre, with a view
to tapping its benefits for Nigeria, especially the Niger Delta region. Also,
authorities of KAIPTC, Accra Ghana and the Center for Peace and Environmental
Justice (CEPEJ) Nigeria, are working out modalities of collaboration towards
mitigating the ecological and security challenges facing the African Continent.
Addressing officials of
the Institute, the National Coordinator of the Center for Peace and
Environmental Justice, CEPEJ an NGO, Comrade Sheriff Mulade, and the
Editor-in-Chief of the NGO’s academic publication, the Peace and Environment
Africa Journal, Professor Benjamin Okaba said the need for collaboration was to
maximize the strengths of both bodies for the benefits of African countries, Ghana
and Nigeria in particular.
They also stressed the
need for the Kofi Annan Institute to send its representatives to this year’s
environment summit in Yenagoa Bayelsa State, being facilitated by CEPEJ in
collaboration with the Bayelsa State Government on the 24th
and 25th of this month.
An official of the Kofi Annan Institute, Emma Birikorang, a
research fellow, commended the NGO for its advocacy role in ensuring peace,
security and development in Africa.
The Federal Ministry of
Environment will deliver the Keynote address at the
seminar and as well host the Ghanaian Minister of Environment.
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