2 years ago
Mr James Heappey, the United Kingdom (UK) Minister for Armed Forces is on a three-day visit to Ghana.
An assertion gave by the British High Commission and duplicated to the Ghana News Agency said the Minister would visit both Accra and Tamale in Ghana and afterward travel to Togo and the Ivory Coast.
It said the Minister's time in West Africa featured the UK's obligation to the persevering through protection and security organization with the district.
The assertion noticed that Mr Heappey showed up in Ghana as pioneers from across the Commonwealth met up in Kigali, Rwanda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
It said the UK would now surrender as Chair-in-Office to Rwanda.
It said as Chair-in-Office, the UK conveyed more than £500 million of undertakings and projects on the side of a more attractive, prosperous, more maintainable and safer future.
Talking after he showed up in Ghana, Mr Heappey said: "The UK has an immovably worldwide standpoint and we perceive that settled security comes from common help and responsibility.
"During my commitment here, I will refresh believed accomplices on the thing the UK is doing and how more we could treat co-work and tackle shared dangers to our security and flourishing."
The assertion said during his visit to Accra, the Minister granted Lt Commander Priscilla Ami Dogbeda Dzokoto the Dartmouth decoration for finishing her underlying maritime preparation at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in the UK in 2013.
It said Lt Commander Dzokoto turned into Ghana's most memorable female maritime boat Commanding Officer in April this year and is presently functioning as the Commanding Officer of Ghana Navy Ship BLIKA.
It said the Minister joined a conversation about the Accra Initiative in the nation's capital and visited the Multinational Maritime Coordination Center (MMCC) Zone F at Christiansborg Castle.
The assertion said in Tamale, Mr Heappey met with three Ministers from Northern Ghana; to be specific Mr Shani Alhassan Saibu, Northern Regional Minister, Dr Hafiz Bin Salish, Upper West Regional Minister and Mr Saeed Mahazu Jibril, Savanna Regional Minister.
The assertion expressed three of the UK's Chevening Alumni ate with the Minister, where they discussed their Chevening venture and shared their experience of the most recent 'See Something, Say Something' effort in Tamale.
It said all through his visit to West Africa, Mr Heappey was joined by the UK's new Defense Adviser to Ghana, and non-inhabitant Defense Attaché to Benin, the Ivory Coast and Togo, Commander Richard Walters.
Talking during the Minister's visit Commander Walters expressed: "Phenomenal to have the UK's Minister for Armed Forces with us in West Africa this week.
"This obviously denotes the significance and strength of the UK's protection organization with the district.
"I'm pleased that Minister Heappey has had the potential chance to visit Tamale and see the UK-Ghana security organization in real life."
The assertion said since Mr Heappey's last visit to Ghana in 2021, the UK-Ghana security organization had seen HMS Trent (Royal Navy transport) visit Ghana interestingly, and would return in the not so distant future.
Others are British military help to Ghana's National Security Exercise HOMESHIELD; and the understanding of an effective arrangement that would see 70 defensively covered Husky vehicles conveyed to Northern Ghana to guarantee the wellbeing of weak networks.
The assertion said leaving Ghana, Mr Heappey reaffirmed the UK's continuous obligation to Ghana's drawn out security and flourishing, accentuating the significance of cooperating on undertakings and organizations in the country, across the district and on the worldwide stage.
Total Comments: 0