Government Approves Expansion of Ghana Armed Forces to Cater for Security Threats

• President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the government has sanctioned the strategic expansion and modernisation of the Ghana Armed Forces, GAF
• The expansion will better position the country to deal with contemporary, emerging, and future security threats
• The president disclosed this at the Military Academy Graduation parade for Regular Career Course 61, held at the Military Academy and Training School on Friday

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that the government has approved the strategic expansion and modernisation of the Armed Forces.

The development will help address the nation's contemporary, emerging, and future security threats.

President Akufo-Addo attended the Military Academy Graduation parade for Regular Career Course 61 at the Military Academy and Training School, where he made this known.

''The strategic expansion and modernization of the Armed Forces, in line with the threat analysis and the acquisition of the requisite equipment, logistics, infrastructure development, and increase in manpower, are being pursued vigorously,'' he said.

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The ceremony, which happened at Teshie in Accra, saw other high-level personalities in attendance.

Beautiful photos from the occasion are available on the president's verified socials.

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YEN.com.gh previously reported that President Nana Akufo-Addo cut sod for the construction of the University of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences at Bunso in the Eastern Region on Friday, May 20.

The $90 million university fulfills the pledge the president made in this year's message on the State of the Nation on March 30, 2022.

''Steps were being taken to turn the planned Bunso campus of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development into a standalone, independent university dedicated to the study of Engineering,'' he said.

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In a similar story, YEN.com.gh reported that President Akufo-Addo has commissioned Atlantic LifeSciences Ltd, a company operating under the government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative.

The president was joined by Alan Kyerematen, the Minister of Trade and Industry, and other officials during the commissioning at Ningo-Prampram in the Greater Accra Region on Friday, April 22.

In a Facebook post, he disclosed that Atlantic LifeSciences Ltd is the 107th factory completed and operating under the 1D1F initiative, out of 278 enterprises being established and rehabilitated across the country.

Source: YEN.com.gh