Osama Bin Laden's death: How it happened

The US operation to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden was months in the planning but took just minutes to complete. 

In a daring raid 120 miles (192km) inside Pakistan, a team of US special forces flew from Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hiding place in the dead of night. They swooped down on the compound in stealth helicopters, swept through the buildings within the high walled enclosure and shot dead a total of five people including Bin Laden.

Around 40 minutes later they left, taking with them Bin Laden's body and a hoard of computer data devices and other information containing intelligence about al-Qaeda and Bin Laden's activities.

They left behind the other dead, among whom were a woman and one of Bin Laden's sons. They also left a group of three women and 13 children - two girls and 11 boys - bound with plastic ties.

The US team was forced to abandon one of its helicopters after it was damaged in a hard landing at the compound site. It was mostly destroyed in an explosion set by the US forces as they departed.

Publicly, the US authorities have given few details about the raid and some of these have changed since the news of Bin Laden's death was officially announced. 

'Something nasty' 

What follows has been pieced together from official US statements and off-the-record interviews, other news sources and BBC interviews with those living near the compound in Abbottabad, the quiet, leafy garrison town 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. 

Just a handful of US military and senior officials around President Obama knew of the planned raid. However, within seconds of the arrival of the US helicopters overhead in Abbottabad on Monday, their presence was being advertised on Twitter. 

"Helicopter hovering above Abbotttabad at 1am (is a rare event)," tweeted Sohaib Athar, an IT engineer who lives about 3km (two miles) from the compound. 

Eleven minutes later Athar reported: "A huge window-shaking bang here in Abbottabad. I hope it's not the start of something nasty." 

On the other side of the world President Obama and his closest advisers had gathered in the White House situation room to monitor progress of the assault. A few miles away, at CIA headquarters, the spy agency's director Leon Panetta sat in a windowless seventh floor room, which had been turned into a command centre. 

From there he fed the president and his team details of the raid as it unfolded. The operation now under way was the culmination of weeks of detailed surveillance and planning involving some of the United States' most sophisticated technology. 

Planning for the raid started late last year. US officials have spoken of how an intercept in late August 2010 of a phone call to a trusted courier of Bin Laden in Pakistan was a breakthrough that led to the raid.

The call was made to Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, a man the US had been seeking for years as part of the decade long hunt for Bin Laden. Controversially, they had learnt of his identity from interrogations of detainees in Guantanamo. Armed with the mobile phone number, the US was able to track him to the compound in Abbottabad. 

The pacer 

It was unusual. High walls prevented anyone from seeing in and privacy screens on the main building's balconies blocked all sight lines. It had no phone or internet connection and all rubbish was burnt inside the high walls rather than being collected as usual.

Access to the site was through a tall green metal security gate which led into a passageway with high walls either side, and another security gate leading to an inner compound at the other end.

According to neighbours who spoke to the BBC, the occupants rarely went out and when they did so - in either a red Suzuki jeep or van - they passed through security doors that closed immediately afterwards.
US intelligence soon began an intensive period of surveillance. While satellites watched from the sky a CIA safe house was set up nearby.

From the safe house, agents were able to observe the comings and goings from the compound in order to establish a "pattern of life" at the building. Some details of how they tried to obtain key information about the building have emerged.

Locals told the BBC that in the weeks leading up to the raid, people in "simple, plain clothes" knocked on doors in the neighbourhood posing as prospective property buyers. They would admire the homes and ask for any architectural plans, saying that they wanted to build something similar. 

One of the men even went to Bin Laden's compound to make inquiries, they said. 

The CIA also employed a sophisticated stealth drone that could float high about the compound without detection by the Pakistani authorities. 

With its distinctive bat-winged shape, the RQ170 Sentinel is capable of flying undetected at high altitude taking photographs and sending real-time video. The aircraft can also capture images shot at an angle. This has the advantage of not having to fly directly over its target. 

Despite the presence on the ground and observation from the sky, the CIA was still unable to positively identify Bin Laden as the man often spotted often walking up and down outside the house. Agents dubbed him "the pacer". 

He and his associates went to extraordinary efforts to remain undetected. According to a detailed account of the lead-up to the raid in the Washington Post, US officials were "stunned to realise that whenever Kuwaiti or others left to make a call, they drove for 90 minutes before placing" a battery in a mobile phone.

In the meantime, a team from the secretive US Navy Seal Team 6 unit, had been practising storming a mock up of the compound, constructed at US bases on both coasts. 

The raid

 

In the end, after months of investigation, the US had no conclusive proof of Bin Laden's presence in the compound. As President Obama told CBS television news, "this was still a 55/45 situation."

Nevertheless, 2 May presented a moonless night on which to mount the raid. The president formally gave the go-ahead on the morning of Friday 29 April.

But despite the detailed planning, the operation began to go wrong almost as soon as the raiders appeared overhead. 

Five aircraft flew two teams of Navy Seals from a US base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, into Pakistan. Three large Chinook helicopters carrying a back-up team of 24 Seals put down near the Indus River, a 10-minute flight from the compound. 

The two other aircraft, specially adapted Black Hawk helicopters, flew on to Abbottabad. On board, were 23 Seals, a translator and a tracking dog called Cairo. Three of the Seals were specifically tasked to seek out Bin Laden. 

In the original plan, one of the helicopters was to hover over the main building allowing the Seals to clamber down ropes onto the roof. The other was to drop its team within the grounds of the compound. This should have taken just a couple of minutes allowing the aircraft to fly away, thereby attracting less attention. 

However, on arrival, the Black Hawk hovering over Bin Laden's building skittered around in the heat-thinned air forcing the pilot to ditch the craft into the ground. It made a hard landing inside the compound but its tail and rotor caught on one of the high walls.

The other aircraft immediately landed outside the walls. Both teams clambered out unhurt but they had now lost the element of surprise and had to start blasting their way into the compound. 

Behind the perimeter walls were further inner walls cordoning off the three-storey main building where Bin Laden and his family lived and a smaller single-storey guard house. 

Leon Panetta, the CIA chief, has said the commandos blasted their way through "three or four" walls to get into the buildings. As the raid got under way, Panetta said, he and those in the White House situation room were in the dark for "around 20-25 minutes" as to what was actually going on in the compound.

According to US officials, as the members of the US team moved to search the buildings they were fired on by one of the two brothers who were close confidantes of Bin Laden. Al-Kuwaiti is said to have fired from behind a door of the guard house. The Navy Seals killed him and his wife, who reportedly made a lunge for the soldiers. 

Moving into the main building the commandos come across al-Kuwaiti's brother on the ground floor. Believing that he was about to shoot, they shot him dead. On the way up the stairs, Bin Laden's adult son, Khalid Bin Laden, met the Navy Seal team. He too was shot and killed. 

'We got him' 

On the top floor the trio of Seals looking for Bin Laden found him, some 20 minutes into the raid, standing at the end of the corridor. They recognised him immediately. He also saw them and ducked back inside a room.

Initial US accounts of the mission said that before he was killed he had exchanged fire with the commandos while using his wife as a human shield. US officials have now told the Associated Press news agency that after the Seals rushed into the room, they found two women in front of Bin Laden, screaming and trying to protect him. 

One of the soldiers pushed the women aside, the Seal behind him fired at Bin Laden, hitting him in the head and chest killing him instantly. 

A later account from one of the Seals involved in the raid suggested that there was no fire fight with the US soldiers. 

According to this account, Bin Laden was killed as soon as he stuck his head out of his bedroom. He was still alive although badly injured when the Seal team entered the room where they shot him again killing him.

After the shooting, one of the soldiers radioed his commanders: "Geronimo EKIA". In the cold military jargon, "EKIA" (Enemy killed in action) signalled that the team had killed their target. 

The message was relayed to the White House where President Obama is said to have received the news with a terse "We got him". Those in the situation room did not see the moment of Bin Laden's death. 

Geronimo, it has been suggested was the code name for Bin Laden, but US officials have indicated that this referred to the stage in the operation in which Bin Laden was either captured or killed. 

As they began photographing his body, an AK-47 and a Russian-made Makarov pistol were discovered in the room, but Bin Laden had not touched them. 

Earlier reports suggested that Bin Laden's wife, believed to be 29-year-old Amal al-Ahmed Sadah, was in the room with him and was shot in the leg when she lunged at the soldiers. Pakistani police say that the couple's 12-year-old daughter was also in the room and witnessed Bin Laden's death.

As the minutes ticked by, a suspicious Pakistani air force began scrambling some of its fighter jets, heightening fears in Washington that the US commandos could still be in danger as they tried to return to Afghanistan.

Pakistan was not tipped off in advance about the raid although a Pakistani intelligence official told the BBC that once US helicopters entered Pakistan air space the US officials told their counterparts that an operation was under way against "a high value target". They were not told the target was Bin Laden. This ultimately led to the jets being called back.

With Bin Laden dead, the US team prepared to leave.

They trawled through the rest of the compound collecting a "treasure trove" of documents, computer hard drives, memory sticks and other material that could provide useful intelligence.

One of the Chinooks flew in to collect the team from the broken helicopter. They loaded up Bin Laden's body, corralled those still alive into a room, piled explosives into the damaged aircraft and blew it up. They then left for the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan.

One neighbour in Abbottabad told the BBC how one of the departing helicopters swept past his house, "flying very low, coming very close".

"I threw myself to the ground thinking it was going to collide with my house," Zahoor Abbasi said.

From there Bin Laden's body was flown to the USS Carl Vinson, a US aircraft carrier in the north Arabian sea, where Bin Laden was prepared for burial. A White House spokesman said the corpse was prepared for burial "in conformance with Islamic precepts and practice", then placed in a weighted bag and dropped into the water from the vessel's deck.

Officials said this was to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine.

Source:  Adrian Brown 

Wonkye Ndi Promotions (2)

Is it not for same hidden agenda of the “Mad Man’s Eye” that Major General Samson Kudjo Adeti, an Ewe, is the Chief of Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces? Yes. The truth of the matter is that Major General Samson Kudjo Adeti is to play and coordinate the roles of hatchet man, master strategist and even master tactician. This wicked, insensitive and ‘greedy’ General is to be merciless, brutal and repressive.

He is to take direct command of some troops to undertake all kinds of nefarious activities with or without the prior knowledge of Service, Command and Formation Chiefs. He was able to undertake these types of “clandestine operations” in the Central and Northern Commands of the Ghana Army when in fact he was the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Southern Command of the Ghana Army until he was elevated to the status of Chief of Staff early this year.

The man ADETI has been so powerful and untouchable that all forms of allegations concerning his morality, sincerity, uprightness and integrity had to be brushed aside by the Armed Forces Council and even resulted in the termination of appointment of a Service Commander, Major General Richard Opoku Adusei.

He is believed to be more suitable for the criminally –minded operations that are to be undertaken between now and January 2017. That explains why Major General Bobson Gbemmieh Saagbul (the immediate past Chief Of Staff) was retired at the age of 61 years instead of the possible allowable 63 years for Major Generals and their equivalents.

Major General SG Saagbul had been appointed Chief Of Staff and given a two star General status to appease the Sissalas of the Upper West Region after the PNDC and its off-shoot NDC had humiliated Dr. Hilla Limann, the first Northerner to be elected as a President of the Third Republic of Ghana.

With Brigadier Generals Musah Whajah (no nonsense Ranger), Stanley Brian Alloh, Comas Bretu Alhassan in charge of the Southern, Northern and Central Commands respectively of the Ghana Army, members of this community are not in doubt at all about the changes that happened on 1 July 2016.

Other strategic appointments at the General Headquarters and Service Headquarters have been made in a well-crafted and coordinated manner.

For instance, the appointment of Brigader General Nicholas Kwami Kporku (my best friend…laugh out loud wai) as the Director General (Joint Operations) is very critical and relevant for the ‘criminal operations’ to be conducted against the enemies.

With Major General Adeti as the Chief Of Staff, Brigadier General NK Kporku will have the necessary support, assistance, encouragement and motivation to plan and execute these operations. Before this current appointment, my friend Kporku had been the Director of Army Peacekeeping Operations (DAPKOP) at the Army Headquarters for over three years (since 26 April 2013) where he showed his no nonsense but tribally motivated colours and got himself axed or replaced by sacked Major General Richard Opoku Adusei.

Another strategic appointment reserved for the Volta Region is the Office of the Military Secretary. This is the office that makes or unmakes an officer whether in the Army, Navy or Airforce.

The Military Secretary’s appointment has been given to Brigadier General Christopher Kwadwo Gyasensir from Northern Volta Region. The appointment had been in the hands of Naval Commodore Moses Beick-Baffour (from Central Volta) since 20 December 2013.

Naval Commodore Moses Beick-Baffour had been appointed Deputy Military Secretary in February 2009. He was deputy to Brigadier General Seidu Mumuni Adams, a friend of our leader of our community. When Brigadier General SM Adams was “rewarded” with the appointment of DMNAA Washington DC (USA) in October 2013, then Naval Captain Moses Beick-Baffour was made to act and later confirmed as the Military Secretary. Thus, since the Atta-Mahama and Mahama-Arthur regimes took power on 7 January 2009, the powerful office of the Military Secretary has been in the hands of the ‘Batakari and Agbadza’ fraternities only with the ‘ABEs’ being offered short-lived Deputy Military Secretary appointments intermittently.

As a matter of fact, Seidu Adams-Beick-Baffour periods saw the premature retirement of several officers from the ‘ABEs’ and the retention of the ‘Batakari and Agbadza’ dynasties. Over-aged ‘Batakari and Agbadza’ members were cleverly posted, appointed and promoted to undeserving higher ranks to ‘escape’ retirement while deserving ABEs were denied postings, appointments and promotions that could ensure their retention or stay for at least a few more years (such as three years).

Whereas very young in age and service ‘Batakari and Agbadza’ members were promoted to have longer stay in our community, several ABEs were deliberately pushed into the “relegation zone” to be retired. Three specific examples were the promotions of Brigadier Generals Anthony Komla Adokpa (GH/1957), Enusah Abdulai (GH/1915) and Anthony Kwasi Dzisi (GH/2334).

In the case of Brigadier General E Abdulai, he was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General on 26 April 2013 when had reached his compulsory retiring age on 10 April 2013. He was promoted Brigadier General when he was the Deputy MILAD in New York, USA and seconded to the Controller and Accountant General’s Department in an unprecedented manner. This was at a time that there was a sitting Brigadier General as the Defence Financial Controller. 

Brigadier General E Abdulai was the only Colonel promoted Brigadier General in that Military Secretary’s publication. It was very clear that he was to be promoted to escape compulsory retirement on account of age while other ABE officers judged as politically and ethnocentrically incorrect were to be released contemporaneously.

Similarly, Brigadier General Anthony Komla Adokpa was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General on 20^th December 2013 after he had “over-stayed” his compulsory retiring age by nine (9) solid months.

Born on 20^th March 1956, General Adokpa reached his compulsory retiring age of 57 years on 20^th March 2013.  But because he is a member of the ‘Agbadza’ cabal, a member of several public Boards including the Divestiture Implementation Committee or Board and a founding member of the ruling party, he was given our leader’s ‘prerogative overstay’ and subsequently promoted Brigadier General at a time that several ABE officers were shown the exit.

Another manifestation of the hatred against ABEs and special favor for the members of the cabal was the promotion of Brigadier General Anthony Kwasi Dzisi. Just as it happened in the case of  Anthony Komla Adokpa (note both of them are Anthonys), then Colonel Dzisi reached his compulsory retirement on account of age on 10^th May 2016 having 10^th May 1959 as his birth-date.

Fortunately for him, he was promoted Brigadier General in March 2016. To hide this cunning act of the cabal, his senior in service and rank, then Colonel Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu (GH/2140), was also promoted Brigadier General.

General Edjeani-Afenu was not in danger of compulsory retirement by age as her brother Komla Dzisi since her birth date is surprisingly 5^th March 1960 (a year younger than Komla Dzisi). But the two of them were promoted on the same day to the enviable and honorable rank of Brigadier General in order to hide the real intentions behind the “SPECIAL TREATMENT” given to Anthony Komla Dzisi who has been made the Defence Financial Controller. 

 

These developments were against the background of the unfair treatment given to some officers of the ABEs. Three examples would be very pertinent to demonstrate the discriminatory nature of some people in our community.

Colonels Alex Kofi Appiah-Agyapong, Anthony Kofi Asare and Cecilia Akyiaa Gambrah were in similar situations as the Adokpas, Dzisis and Edjeanis and yet were denied just and fair treatment because they are from the ABE zone.

For instance Colonel AK Appiah-Agyapong was made to “mark time” when there were several vacancies and appointments that he could fit into based on his professional development, qualifications, merit, experience and knowledge. But that was not to be. With 26^th October 1956 as his birth-date, Colonel Appiah Agyapong was released in August 2013 just before he had his compulsory retiring age of 57 years while General Adokpa was given our leader’s “prerogative over-stay” from March 2013 to 20^th December 2013 before he was promoted from Colonel to Brigadier General.

The Military Secretary ( a member of the cabal) was in a hurry to retire Colonel Appiah-Agyapong but was reluctant to give even an intended notice of release to the untouchable Adokpa.

Similarly, Colonel Akyiaa Gambrah whose 57^th birth date fell in April 2013 was also shown the exit while Adokpa was enjoying his over-stay which eventually metamorphosed into a promotion to the rank of Brigadier General.

Is this not a case of the Animal farm? If the case of then Colonel CE Edjeani-Afenu was based on “Gender issues” why wouldn’t the powers-that-be extend the same criteria to Colonel Akyiaa Gambrah who was senior in service and rank to Colonel CE Edjeani-Afenu?

If it was a question of magnanimity, why couldn’t the authorities widen the scope to cover her too? Certainly the gender balance clause is invoked when its affects a cabal member but NOT when it affects an ABE.

Colonel Anthony Kofi Asare was in a similar tight corner as Appiah-Agyspong and Akyiaa Gambrah. 

Colonel AK Asare had been made to act as the GOC Northern Command in Kumasi when then Brigadier General Richard Opoku-Adusei was elevated from GOC and appointed Chief of Army Staff in March 2013.

Unfortunately, Colonel Asare was shown the exit a few weeks later and in his stead then Colonel JA Boampong was the GOC Northern Command and promoted Brigadier General. Thus, one leg of ABE in, one leg of ABE out!!! 

NB: Somebody extend my regards to Lieutenant Colonels Wumbei, Ayoringo and Attipoe-Dumashie and their lawyer for me….the issue must be revisited again or?

They claim you collected $5000 from every soldier from Southern Command who went on Peace Keeping Operations and now they claim our community’s rent deductions and 24% electricity and water charges on soldiers and officers are deposited in your account….ayoooo…my head is not BoG ooooooo

How many Brigadier Generals are from Odo baako p3, Madam Lordina Mahama’s home-region….any help members?

Wonkye Ndi Promotions

The real character of our Commander In Chief and his associates has been demonstrated in the military’s secretary’s publication of 1^st July 2016 and the statement issued by the leader of our community in the “sacking” of Major General Richard Opoku-Adusei and the immediate appointment of Major General Obed Boamah Akwa (GH/1671) in his place. 

The withdrawal of the routine guards on duty at No 2 Roman Ridge (the official residence of the Chief of Army Staff) with those believed to be loyal to the UNTOUCHABLE Chief of Staff, Major General Sampson Kudjo Adeti in a very bizarre manner leaves much to be desired.

As if that was not enough, the quickly arranged and humiliating manner in which the handing/taking over between Major General Richard Opoku-Adusei and Obed Boamah Akwa took place vividly demonstrate the ingratitude of the umbrella and its entire fraternity. As long as one is found useful to the umbrella, one would be hailed and praised but as soon as one is seen or behaved to have outlived one’s usefulness (from the spectacles of the umbrella) one is disgracefully dumped in the dust bin as has happened to Major General Richard Opoku-Adusei. 

In other to achieve an undeserved “third term”, very strategic and tactical promotions have been made. Relatively younger men in service, poorer in military knowledge, maturity and experience have been promoted Generals and Colonels within a very short period of time during the combined Presidency of Mills and Mahama. 

Within a matter of four to six years, questionable characters have been promoted to and from the rank of Colonel and Generals. It is no longer a question of merit, morality, maturity and standards but a question of animal loyalty pregnant with wicked infections, atrocities, barbarism, callousness and vindictiveness. It is the likes of the Adetis, Adokpas, Fiawoos, Degbes, Mustaphas, Alhassans, Ntems, Oforis, Abus, Santrofis and Dzisis.

It is now the reign of politically corrupt, militarily wicked and ethnocentrically correct members of our community.

The postings and appointments show the wicked intentions and biases of shade that the politically and ethnocentrically correct ones  can have under the umbrella while the perceived politically and tribally incorrect ones are chased out of our community, victimized, humiliated and left to the vagaries of the volatile political and economic mess created and deepened by the P/NDC.

How come that all these fine officers have been found unsuitable for positions as Director Generals, Formation Commanders, Commandants but their juniors have been elevated to the status of Generals (one and two stars)? The fine officers include Brigadier Generals Samuel Yanyi Akofur (GH/1834), Alfred Issah Wuni (GH/1835), Emmanuel Tetteh Akunor (GH/1859), Joseph Kwankye (GH/1838), Comodores Seth Vincent Aidoo Coomson (GH/1969), Mark Ransford Nanabayin Yawson (GH/1974) and Group Captain John Emmanuel Kojo Ankah?

These fine officers have been shown the exit. Meanwhile a certain pattern has been established by the ethnocentric guys in our community. After the death of our former Commander In Chief, the current leader appointed his kinsmen, Brigadier General Seidu Mumuni Adams (GH/1782), as the Defence, Military, Navy, Air attaché (DMNAA) on 14^th October 2013. 

On 1^st July, 2016 the current leader has again appointed another kinsmen Brigadier General Alhassan Abu (GH/2023) as the DMNAA to the office of the DMNAA, Washington DC, USA.

Similarly in March 2009, the former leader appointed then Commodore Geoffrey Mawuli Biekro (GH/1668) as the Chief of Staff to see to the 2012 elections while the current leader has appointed Major General Sampson Kudjo Adeti as the Chief of Staff. The common denominator is that they are all Ewes willing and able to cause a lot of havoc to non Ewes especially those from the ABE Zone of Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Eastern Regions.

What was done to then Colonel Kofi Asare under Commodore Biekro has been done to Naval Captain Emmanuel Kofi Ankamah. Under the same bizarre circumstances that then Acting GOC of the Northern Command of the Ghana Army, Colonel Kofi Asare was made to go on compulsory retirement when he could been promoted Brigadier General commensurate with his appointment, Naval Captain Emmanuel Kofi Ankamah has been retired while his closet friends and mates Naval and Air Commodores Seth Amoama (GH/2157) and Griffiths Santrofi Evans (GH/2027) have been promoted to the ranks of Rear Admiral and Air Vice Marshal respectively.

Is it not strange that while Captain (GN) EK Ankamah does not deserved even the rank of Commodore, his colleagues have passed that rank and are today two star Generals (Rear Admiral and Air Vice Marshal)?

What was the crime of Captain (GN) Ankamah?

He had risen with his close friend Amoama from A/SLT to Lt Cdr without any hitch. But the first hitch happened in 2007 when Amaoma and Evans got their ranks to Commander and Wing Commander respectively. Then came 2012 and 2013 under the umbrella and again Amaoma and Evans got promoted to the ranks of Commodore leaving behind Ankamah who got his Naval Captain rank in 2008.

In the cases of Kofi Asare and Kofi Ankamah they were supposed to be politically correct as the all fly under the umbrella but unfortunately they were found to be ethnocentrically incorrect. The two Kofis are all from the ABE Zone, specifically the Brong Ahafo Region.

Our leader pretends to love the people of Brong Ahafo presumably because his wife, Madam Lordina Mahama is from the region. However, it seems he hates military personnel from that region. I can cite many examples but I won’t because many members of this community are aware already.

Those who remember Kofi Ankamah and Seth Amoama very well know that both of them attended courses together especially in India and Pakistan where they move together as real brothers. They brought the same type of salon cars with diesel engines and bluish color (Navy biased) to match.

Today Kofi Ankamah has been retired as a Naval Captain while Seth Amoama is flying high as a Rear Admiral and the Commandant of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College. With 18 March 1959 as his birth date, Rear Admiral Seth Amoama can be in the Ghana Armed Forces until March 2022 even if he does not get promoted beyond Rear Admiral. What a demonstration of injustice and unfairness!!!

Eh, Ghana Airforce too…… so it is all a question of rewarding only those who are politically and ethnocentrically correct? 

I cannot think far about the appointment of Air Vice Marshal Griffiths Santrofi Evans as Commandant of KAIPTC. This combines beautifully with the appointments of Air Commodore Joseph Yaotse Morgan Nyadodui (GH/2181) and Group Captain Elvis King Arneson (GH/2606) as Defence Adviser for New Delhi, India and Cario, Egypt respectively!!

The common denominator is that both are Ewes and members of the cabal that exercises control over both the current Chief of Air Staff, AVM Maxwell Mantserbi Nagai and Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Peter Kofi Faidoo.

Again, the situation in the Airforce is close to that in the Navy. While there are very senior Naval Captains, the cabal was at Kofi Faidoo’s throat to send a member to London as a Deputy Defence Adviser. That explains the appointment of Naval Captain Francis AYITEVI NYARKO (GH/2618).  PLEASE DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE NAME NYARKO. 

And AVM Maxwell Mantserbi Nagai rewarded Colonel John Felix Nana Kwame Freeman (GH/2345). Colonel JFNK Freeman has been rewarded with the position of Deputy Military Adviser (MILAD) at the office of MILAD United Nations Headquarters New York. I know that the former Army Commander wanted him to stay at the Airforce Headquarters as the accountant or sort so I am shocked he is travelling outside. 

AVM Maxwell Mantserbi Nagai, can you tell us (members) something about this reward? Or are you afraid?  

NB: I hear the Ghana Armed Forces is going to recruit 3,000 personnel for the three arms and Colonel SK Adorkor is going to lead that…interesting I can say

And the contractor was invited by the BNI for questioning over what I don’t know…eh….

I just love Brigadier General Kporku…..whaaaat….you do all wai…power sweet and you really showed it on 1 July 2016….how dare he remove us from our ‘connection’ point where we get something small to help our side-chicks and friends, bravo man.