Accra, Dec. 18, - “Ghana’s waters
have become a safe waiting area for ships calling in ports in neighbouring
countries,” Rear Admiral Moses Kwadwo Beick-Baffour, the Chief of staff at the
General Headquarters of the Ghana Armed Forces, has said.
He said the Ghana Navy now had a
crop of special force operatives who could handle asymmetric threats such as
hostage rescue onboard ships and maritime interdiction operations.
Real Admiral Beick-Baffour was
addressing officers and men at the Ghana Navy’s West Africa Security Services
Association (WASSA) get together, which also took account of their achievements
for 2017.
He said everything that the
Service had achieved was a collective effort of the High Command, Officers,
Ratings, Civilian Employees and stakeholders within and outside, adding, “0ur
teamwork has held the anchor firm during the stormy times in 2017”.
Real Admiral Beick-Baffour said
the Ghana Navy had experienced a very successful year looking back to many
achievements worth celebrating, explaining, “We have had our challenges but we
choose to celebrate the success as we learn from the shortfalls”.
He said the Navy continued to
improve its maritime domain awareness capabilities with the installations of
new surveillance equipment in all maritime operations centres at the Naval
Headquarters.
Two new State of the Art
surveillance equipment, he said, were also mounted at the Western and Eastern
borders at Newtown and Aflao.
Rear Admiral Beick-Baffour said
the Navy was able to for the first time in many years, put an unprecedented
number of ships to sea with the aim of assessing their performances, which were
found to be outstanding.
He said: “The Navy was,
therefore, ready when called upon to protect the nation’s assets at sea and
ensure the integrity of our exclusive economic zone following the ruling of the
International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea.”
Its goal of improving its
presence at sea was overwhelmingly, achieved resulting in no recorded piracy
incident in the waters of Ghana, he said.
Deserving Officers and civilian
employees at the Naval Headquarters were awarded for exceptional delivery of
their duties at the event, which was interspersed with music and dance.
Admiral Arthur Sampah Randy Nuno,
a former Chief of Naval Staff commended the Ghana Navy for the success chalked
during the year.
He urged them not to drift away
from the rules of the Service and advised the awarded Officers to do more
because the award placed on them, a higher responsibility.
He told the Officers to take
extra care of themselves in the festive season and be generous.
GNA
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