The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Thomas Oppong Peprah, has dispelled rumours making the rounds among the rank and file of the Ghana Armed Forces that the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Vice Admiral Seth Amoama, has been sacked.
According to him, the rumours which had it that he had replaced Vice Admiral Amoama as the CDS were false and same should be treated with contempt.
“I have observed that something is trending that the CDS has been sacked and I have been appointed as CDS. It is not true please disregard it,” he stated at the commissioning of a 20-unit Officers Transit Accommodation for the Ghana Army in Accra yesterday.
In his view, the rumours were the handiwork of “our detractors to let us lose focus from what we are doing for our officers and men and women. The important thing is to focus on our dreams and realise them.”
The top echelon of the Armed Forces, he said remained committed to their mandate to improve the working conditions of members of the Armed forces.
The 40-bed capacity accommodation facility forms part of the BK Akafia Transit Lodge concept to serve as a transit facility for outstation personnel during rotation for Peace Support Operations and other essential duties.
The BK Akafia Transit Lodge concept is designed to include an ultra-modern sports complex, a restaurant, a garage and other amenities for a comfortable stay of officers, men and women of the Ghana Army on Peace Support Operations.
In the view of Major General Peprah, the facility would contribute to housing personnel embarking and disembarking from peace support operations.
He explained that his motivation to put up a decent place of accommodation for peace support operations was borne from his encounter as director, Army Peacekeeping Operation with some personnel who had to sleep in the open for lack of accommodation.
Major General Oppong tasked his would-be successors to carry on with the idea and continue with the other phases of the facility so that all UN equipment would be kept at a single location.
“This is not the end of the UN village. I am placing it as a charge to successors to continue the concept if I am not able to complete. We have to seek the welfare of our officers and soldiers at all times. That is our duty,” he emphasized.
The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ghana Army said the facility would enhance the well-being of “our men and women of the military whose peacekeeping exploits have helped to place Ghana on the global map of nations for peace support operations”.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Paragon Company Limited and contractor of the facility, Kwasi Amoo Serebour, who built the facility for free said that was his contribution to the wellbeing of officers of the Army as they undertake their mandate to defend the country.
BY JULIUS YAO PETETSI
