{"id":260269,"date":"2024-12-04T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/04\/lt-general-arnold-quainoo-dead\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:16:59","slug":"lt-general-arnold-quainoo-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/04\/lt-general-arnold-quainoo-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. General Arnold Quainoo Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Ghanaian military officer, Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo has died at the 37 military hospital on Monday, December 2, 2024 in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>He served as the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from August 1983 to September 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo who took over from the late Flight Lieutenant J. J. Rawlings handed over to Lieutenant General Winston Mensa-Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as \u201cBuffalo Soldier\u201d, he was the first commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) that intervened to end the Liberian civil war.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as Army Commander, in 1979 following the coup-d\u2019\u00e9tat by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which overthrew the Supreme Military Council (SMC).<\/p>\n<p>He was however replaced when the Limann government was elected in 1979 but was re-appointed as Chief of Army Staff following the coup by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and subsequently as commanding officer at the Ghana Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo \u00a0 Former Ghanaian military officer, Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo has died at the 37 military hospital on Monday, December 2, 2024 in Accra. 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