Military restricts entry into Burma Camp

There are indications the Ghana Armed Forces has stepped up security at some of its installations in the country.

Accra-based Joy FM reported Thursday that the army has been restricting entry at Burma Camp in Accra to only people with valid proof of identification.

The report said guards at the entrance of the camp have since last Thursday been turning away residents and visitors who were unable to provide any identity card.

“This is our camp, it is a military zone. We need to know everyone who enters,” one of the soldiers at the entrance was quoted as having said.

The development comes after reports that a 25-year-old male former student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Nazir Nortei Alema, has left Ghana to join the dreaded Islamic State (IS).