MILITARY HIGH COMMAND INSPECTS MULTINATIONAL ANTI-TERRORISM OPERATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN TAMALE

The Military High Command inspected the temporary Joint Task Force Headquarters of Operation Enhanced Koudanlgou – a multinational anti-terrorism operation involving Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo - at Nyohini in Tamale earlier this month.

 

 

The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Vice Admiral Seth Amoama paid the visit with the National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Emmanuel Okyere (Rtd), the Chief of the Army Staff, Major General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, the General Officer Commanding Northern Command, Brigadier General Matthew Essien, the Tamale Air Force Base Commander, Air Commodore Joshua Mensah-Larkai and the Incoming Chief Staff Officer at the Army Headquarters, Brig Gen BB Owusu as well as senior staff Officers from both the Army Headquarters and the Northern Command.

 

 

The inspection formed part of the first phase of a two-day operational visit by the Military High Command to the Northern Command Area of Responsibility to ascertain firsthand the progress of ongoing developments in line with the expansion drive of the Ghana Armed Forces among other security considerations.

On the first day of the visit, the delegation first received an operational brief at the Air Force Base in Tamale and proceeded to inspect a number of ongoing infrastructural developments, notable was the temporary Joint Taskforce Headquarters for Operation Enhanced Koudanlgou at the Nyohini Camp.

 

 

They also visited the project site for the construction of a Logistics Base which when completed would serve as the main logistics base for the Command. According to the GOC, Brig Gen Matthew Essien, the Base would ensure combat efficiency and sustained operations of troops when the need arises.

 

 

On the second day, the CDS and the delegation visited the Army Special Operations Training School (ASOTS) at Daboya in the Savannah Region where a newly constructed staff accommodation block, ASOTS Headquarters Block, accommodation block, the unit square and a rehabilitated Regimental Aid Post were commissioned by CDS.

 

 

Vice Admiral Amoama revealed that he recognized the need to fund the construction of those facilities when he paid a maiden visit to the school in April 2021. He added that this was in support of the Chief of the Army Staff's effort to develop the school into a fully functioning special operations training school to deliver the requisite training and education for personnel to enable GAF achieve its mandate.