Hon Fritz Baffour, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South, Greater Accra region and Chairman of Defence and Interior committee Fritz Baffour
Ablekuma South is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Ablekuma South is located in the Accra Metropolitan Area of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
Source: GNA / 03.10.2015 - Mr
Fritz Barffour, Chairman, Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence
and Interior, says the committee is concerned about the
proliferation of small arms and the potential radicalization of the
youth.
He said the proliferation of small
arms was one of the major causes of conflicts in some parts of the
country, which had resulted in the loss of lives and the
destruction of properties.
Mr Baffour said this on Wednesday at
a day's round-table organized by the Foundation for Security
Development in Africa (FOSDA), a security and development oriented
NGO to mark the celebration of the UN Day in commemoration of the
abolishing of nuclear weapons, which is marked annually on
September 26.
He expressed concern about the
porous nature of borders across Africa, which makes it easier for
people to smuggle arms from one end to the other to create
troubles. He
called for the creation of jobs for the youth to stop them from
joining radical groups. - Read More at
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Fritz Baffour (born 11 March 1952) is a Ghanaian journalist, politician and communications consultant. He is the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency in the Parliament of Ghana and the Minister for Information of Ghana. He is a member of the National Democratic Congress in Ghana.
Baffour was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana. His father was R. P. Baffour, an academician and one of the first Ghanaian mechanical engineers as well as the first Ghanaian Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His mother was a midwife. His secondary education was at the Prempeh College and the Technology Secondary School, both in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He obtained his GCE Ordinary Level certificate in 1968. His sixth form education was at the City of Bath College in Avon in the United Kingdom between 1972 and 1974, completing with the GCE Advanced Level certificate. Baffour also attended the Bristol Polytechnic between 1974 and 1976. Fritz Baffour did a Masters degree in Communication Studies from the Leicester University between 2007 and 2012.
Baffour worked as a journalist. He was a producer with Ghana Television, the TV channel of the state owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation as a producer and director. He has also worked with Liberian Television, Nigerian Television, Tyne Tees TV UK, Diverse Production in UK and Back to Back Productions USA. He was also a media consultant to the government of Jerry Rawlings.
Baffour was involved with the National Democratic Congress from its inception in 1991. He became a member of parliament in January 2009 after winning the Ablekuma South seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2008. He was appointed Minister for information by President John Atta Mills in 2012.
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Hon Fritz Baffour, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma South