The Centre for Maritime Law and Security has asked government to jealously protect the country’s maritime borders.
According to the Centre, resources in the ocean could be a major source of conflict among nations in the coming years and it behoves Ghana to safe guard its allocations.
The caution comes a year after Ghana won a maritime dispute against Cote d’Ivoire. Cote d’Ivoire had claimed it had rights to the area where Ghana had been undertaking some hydrocarbon activities, and was demanding compensation from Ghana at the International Tribunal in the Law of the Sea.
Although Ghana won, a loss could have had dire implications on Ghana’s oil proceeds as the major oil fields, Tweneboa, Enyira and Ntome would have been lost to Cote d’Ivoire.
The Executive Director of the Centre for Maritime Law and Security, Dr. Kamal-Deen Ali, said this at a sensitization forum for representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Accra.
The Chief Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Albert Yankey, said the workshop has been an eye opener.
He said the protection of the country’s resources must go beyond being examined with political lenses and called for greater collaboration among border countries.
