{"id":659491,"date":"2019-07-18T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t<p><strong>Prog Mike Oquaye being assisted by senior officers to unveil the Navy@60 logo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Ocquaye, has said the Ghana Navy needs all the support to be able to provide security at the c"},"modified":"2019-07-18T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:41:04","slug":"speaker-rallies-support-for-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/18\/speaker-rallies-support-for-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Rallies Support For Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Prog Mike Oquaye being assisted by senior officers to unveil the Navy@60 logo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Ocquaye, has said the Ghana Navy needs all the support to be able to provide security at the country\u2019s coasts, particularly the place where oil and gas have been discovered in commercial quantities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to them (Navy) to be favourably well resourced and in a manner that will enable them to read the challenges of criminals and other workers both from inside and without,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker made the comment at the Burma Hall in Accra during the launch of the 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Ghana Navy which was also used to launch a book on the history of the Ghana Navy from the colonial period of its establishment to date.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cI\u2019m particularly interested in the merit in view of the fact that the oil that Ghana has discovered is basically sea-based (oceanic discovery) and that means that we have to face a lot of challenges by way of pirates and these can become a serious national economy threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Rear Admiral Seth Amoama, traced the history of the Ghana Navy and said they had continued to work hard in spite of logistical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Emmanuel Kwesi Anning of the faculty of Academic Affairs of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping and Training Centre, who reviewed the book titled: \u201cHistory of the Ghana Navy \u2013 A case for a credible naval force as an instrument for national development\u201d said the book is the first official record of the history of the Ghana Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Also present were Mrs Fulera Limann, a former first lady, members of Parliament, representatives of various agencies, senior military officers \u2013 both serving and retired \u2013 among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linda Tenyah-Ayettey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(lindatenyah@gmail.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prog Mike Oquaye being assisted by senior officers to unveil the Navy@60 logo Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Ocquaye, has said the Ghana Navy needs all the support to be able to provide security at the country\u2019s coasts, particularly the place where oil and gas have been discovered in commercial quantities. \u201cWe look forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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