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From Left: Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, Vice President Dr Bawumia, President Akufo-Addo and Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul at the funeral service<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remains of the late Major General\nFrancis Vib-Sanziri "},"modified":"2019-06-30T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T00:17:39","slug":"sanziri-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/30\/sanziri-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanziri Laid To Rest –"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Left: Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, Vice President Dr Bawumia, President Akufo-Addo and Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul at the funeral service<\/strong><\/p>\n

The remains of the late Major General
\nFrancis Vib-Sanziri were laid to rest yesterday at the Military Cemetery behind
\nthe Accra International Trade Fair Centre.<\/p>\n

This was after a well attended pre-burial
\nmass was held in his memory at the St Catherine Catholic Church at Burma Camp
\nin Accra officiated by Most Rev Joseph Afrifa Agyekum.<\/p>\n

In attendance were President Akufo-Addo;
\nVice President Mahamudu Bawumia; former Presidents Jerry Rawlings and John Mahama;
\nthe Ministers of Defence and the Interior, Dominic Nitiwul and Ambrose Dery
\nrespectively; former and present service chiefs; and members of the military
\nhigh command.<\/p>\n

Also present were the Chief of the Defence
\nStaff, Lieutenant General Obed Akwa; the Inspector-General of Police, David
\nAsante-Apeatu; the United Nations representative in Ghana, Sylvia Lopez-Ekra;
\nand some members of the diplomatic corps, including high-ranking officers of
\nthe Ghana Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

The late Major General Francis Vib-Sanziri,
\nwho until his death was Force Commander and Head of Mission for United Nations
\nDisengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), was at the Golan Heights in 1957.<\/p>\n

Prior to that appointment, he was the
\nDirector General, Joint Operations at the General Headquarters, Burma Camp,
\nAccra.<\/p>\n

Before then, he was acting National Coordinator
\nof the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), a position he held
\nfrom 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n

Having begun his career in the military in
\nAugust 1985, he served Ghana with distinction, including peace keeping stints
\nwith UN in Lebanon and Rwanda and ECOMOG in Liberia and Sierra Leone, according
\nto his peers.<\/p>\n

He also served as a Strategic Military Planner for peace keeping operations at the UN headquarters in New York, USA.<\/p>\n

By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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