[ 2021-03-10 ]

Prez Akufo-Addo takes pride in re-tooling and re-equipping security services
President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that the
country’s security services have been retooled
and re-equipped substantially under this
administration.

Delivering his first State of the Nation Address
(SONA) for his 2nd term on Tuesday, March 9, 2021,
the President said, “Indeed, the first four (4)
units of four (4) storey blocks of sixteen (16)
flats under the Barracks Regeneration Project have
been commissioned, and the remaining part of a
forty (40) 2-bedroom self-contained accommodation
units for the Six-Battalion of Infantry and
AirBorne Force, in Tamale, have also been
completed.

The President indicated that a number of pick-ups,
SUVs, trucks, high occupancy buses, ambulances and
Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) have been added
to the inventory of the Armed Forces over the
period, as well as the imminent completion of a
Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Ezinlibo in the
Jomoro District of the Western Region.
“And, in response to the creation of additional
ranks within the Military, Government reviewed
salaries and allowances for Ghana Armed Forces and
Civilian Employees upwards effective 1st January,
2020”.

“Indeed, when I took office in January 2017, the
Police Service had a total of four hundred and
ninety-two (492) serviceable cars. Government has,
since then, procured for the Police some seven
hundred and thirty-five (735) additional vehicles,
including fifteen (15) operational buses, a feat
unprecedented in the history of the Service.

Three hundred and twenty (320) housing units are
being constructed at National Police Training
School to reduce the accommodation deficits of the
Service”.

On his accord, the Criminal Investigations
Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has
also been equipped with a digital forensic lab
with crime officers receiving monthly stipends for
their investigations.

“The Criminal Investigations Department has been
equipped with a digital forensics laboratory, and,
for the first time in the history of the
Department, crime officers are given a monthly
allowance to support their investigations”, he
disclosed.

Source - Happyfm

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