With the fast expansion of Ghana’s capital Accra, the Minister for Defence, Dominic Aduna Bingab Nitiwul has expressed fears of the vast eclipse of Bundase Training Camp being encroached upon.

According to him, the training camp is one of the most important facilities that Ghana has that gives the Armed Forces a range of over 20 kilometres to fire all their arsenals.

Hence, he said: “In the unlikely event that this place is taken away from the Armed Forces, we will have a very big problem.”

As a matter of importance, he charged the Armed Forces to take immediate steps to protect the training ground, “especially as Accra expanses so that people do not come and encroach upon the land.”

The Minister said this at the Bundase Training Camp after witnessing a Land combat power demonstration on Friday.

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The exercise is an important event on the Ghana Armed Forces calendar, as it presents students of the Ghana Armed Forces and Staff College opportunity to appreciate fire assets available to battle groups in combat.

The training, which was not targeted at anybody, is meant to sharpen the skills of the soldiers and to keep them in preparedness.

On that scores, Mr Nitiwul promised that the government will continue to provide the military with the necessary support and resources to enable them protect the territorial integrity of the country as well as against threats from within and external.

He said in addition to the newly acquired armoured vehicles, a new set of the tanks are expected to arrive in the country before the end of the year.  

Defence Minister Nitiwul firmly believes that “when you have a very strong Armed Forces who are well motivated, well trained, then nation will begin to have vast investment because nobody will put in money in a country where they know that your Armed Forces can easily be run over.”

By Akutu Dede Adimer