Interior Minister Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka says Ghana’s security situation has improved since the government took office in 2025, pointing to fewer curfews and a period of relative calm in Bawku.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Monday, October 12, 2026, he said the government was working to enable residents to carry out their daily activities without fear.
“I can assure you that we are safer today than we were when we took over power,” he said. “Ghana is much safer even today than it was in 2025.”
Mr Muntaka argued that progress should not be measured solely by comparing the number of deaths recorded each year. Instead, he cited the reduction in curfews, saying Ghana began 2025 with about 11 and ended the year with around nine.
“As we speak now, we have only three more curfews,” he said.
He also pointed to developments in Bawku in the Upper East Region, which he said had recorded 150 days without gunfire.
The relative calm, according to the minister, had allowed authorities to ease restrictions, including permitting motorbike use between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and setting the curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
“They were not riding motorbikes for more than five years. Today, they are riding motorbikes from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.,” he said.
The minister recalled periods when violence associated with the Bawku conflict spread to other communities, triggering retaliatory attacks and the burning of buses along highways.
He said authorities had combined security operations with mediation and peacebuilding to contain the situation.
Despite the improvements, Mr Muntaka identified ethnic conflicts, land disputes and illicit drugs as persistent security challenges.
