Veep Lauds Indian Army

Vice-president John Dramani Mahama has commended the Indian Army for contributing to world peace through its peacekeeping.

According to him, India and Ghana have demonstrated the need for South-South Cooperation as both countries have been the dominate forces in ensuring peace in some troubled spots in other parts of the world.

Mr. Mahama made the remarks when he received a delegation from the National Defence College of India who are on a 5-day tour of Ghana led by Air Vice-Marshal S.K Karmakar at the Castle in Accra.

Present at the meeting was the Indian High-Commissioner to Ghana H.E Ruchi Ghanashyam and Gen Mensah-Nunoo (Retd), the National Security Advisor to the government.

The vice-president noted that the military have come a long way in the performance of their traditional duties and that modern trends have called for their reorientation.

He therefore stressed that to live up to the modern trend, the military have been performing social activities especially during periods of disaster.

Mr. Mahama acknowledged India’s domestic performance in managing its poverty situation, attributing it to the use of simple technology that abounds in India.

The vice-president recommended the need for other countries to cooperate with each other in terms of technology exchange to bring about sustainable development.

In the field of military cooperation, Mr. Mahama lamented over the withdrawal of technical support from the British government to the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, which he described as unfortunate.

He, however, indicated that in the face of that withdrawal the government of Ghana has managed to keep the place running.

On good governance, the vice-president said Ghana had made a lot of strides in its democratic dispensation, particularly coming from a long period of coup d’état, where it is being regarded as oasis of peace in Africa.

He assured that Ghana was at the verge of making progress in the oil and gas discovery, promising that the lessons from other oil producing countries would help Ghana use the resources for the interest of the majority of the citizenry.

For her part, H.E Madam Ghanashyam commended Ghana for strengthening Ghana-India cooperation over the period with further consolidation by the Prof. Mills administration.

She said the role of Ghana in world peace was commendable and stressed the need to emulate that gesture by other African countries.

The leader of the delegation Air Vice-Marshal Karmakar said the team was in the country to observe Ghana’s democratic and other activities to help them in their policy planning.

The delegation was made up of some military personnel from Sri Lanka and Brazil and some civil personnel from the India Armed Forces.


Story: Wisdom Peter Awuku