Ghana's National Peace Council is basically drowning under a mountain of unresolved disputes while running on fumes, and Chairman Emmanuel Fianu went on TV3 to air out all the problems. The organization has 83 people on staff when they actually need 400 just for regional work, and close to 1,000 if they want district-level coverage that could actually make a dent nationwide. Over 300 cases are sitting in limbo because there aren't enough bodies to handle the workload.
Money is another disaster since the government only coughed up half of their 5 million cedi budget allocation, and most of that cash went straight to salaries and keeping the lights on. The Peace Fund that was supposed to save everything has scraped together a pathetic 400,000 cedis in two years, which Fianu says is nowhere near enough for what they're supposed to be doing. The whole setup means conflict resolution keeps getting pushed back because nobody can afford to actually go out and mediate anything.
Money is another disaster since the government only coughed up half of their 5 million cedi budget allocation, and most of that cash went straight to salaries and keeping the lights on. The Peace Fund that was supposed to save everything has scraped together a pathetic 400,000 cedis in two years, which Fianu says is nowhere near enough for what they're supposed to be doing. The whole setup means conflict resolution keeps getting pushed back because nobody can afford to actually go out and mediate anything.
