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Zeqblog Blog of Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Source: Okine Isaac
Lt. General Arnold Quainoo is dead.
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Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo
Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo, a former Ghanaian military officer, died on Monday, December 2, 2024, in the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
He was the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from August 1983 to September 1989.
Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo, who succeeded the late Flight Lieutenant J.J. Rawlings, turned over to Lieutenant General Winston Mensa-Wood.
He was also known as the "Buffalo Soldier" and was the first commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), which intervened to halt the Liberian civil war.
He also served as Army Commander in 1979, following the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council's (AFRC) coup that deposed the Supreme Military Council.
He was ousted after the Limann government was elected in 1979, but he was re-appointed as Chief of Army Staff by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) following the coup, and later as commanding officer of the Ghana Armed Forces.
