[ 2017-04-26 ]

Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi, Commanding Officer of 2 Battalion of Infantry (2Bn)

Army chief suspended over ‘galamsey’
Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi, Commanding
Officer of 2 Battalion of Infantry (2Bn), Takoradi
has been recalled to the Southern Command
Headquarters as he faces a Board Of Inquiry (BOI)
for his suspected galamsey related activities.

He has also been said to have engaged in illegal
seizure of cars and provided armed escorts for
galamsey operatives in a region which is
unrivalled in illegal mining.

According to sources, Lieutenant Colonel GNK
Hoenyedzi’s cup got full two months ago when a
chief in the Western Region who happens to be his
friend seized some excavators on his concession
and brought them to the unit for safekeeping.

Trouble however erupted when questions were posed
about the excavators the matter having reached the
desk of the then Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major
General OB Akwa now the Chief of The Defence Staff
(CDS).

When the COAS ordered investigations, the
Commanding Officer reportedly feigned knowledge of
any excavator in the unit repeating same to the
Police when they too in the course of
investigations approached him.

The COAS who was smarter than Lieutenant Colonel
GNK Hoenyedzi immediately ordered that all
equipment in the unit should stand still.

Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi was therefore
unable to move the excavators out of the unit’s
premises and he was found to have palpably lied to
his superior, the COAS.

In line with military standards he was slapped
with an intermediary sanction of an interdiction
as investigations continue on him especially
against the backdrop of fresh malfeasances of
serious dimension.

Source - DAYBREAK

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