Kofi Ampeah Woode
In line with the reorganization of the G2 Branch at the Army Headquarters, the branch has commenced its Intelligence Operatives Seminar 1-24 to continuously build the capability of personnel to provide the requisite intelligence for mission planning.
The 3-day security seminar whose opening ceremony was held on Wednesday, 13 March, 2024 at the 5 Infantry Battalion lecture hall in Arakan Barracks, Burma Camp, involved 30 operatives from various units of the Ghana Army, seeks to enhance their ability to gather information as well as to equip them with elliptical skills to enable them support their respective units and by extension, the branch.
The Guest of Honour, who doubles as the Acting Chief Staff Officer (A/CSO) at the Army Headquarters and Deputy Chief Staff Officer Intelligence (DCSO INT) – Brigadier General (Brig Gen) F Salifu reiterated the importance of the course.
He further elaborated that the seminar would help improve the capability of the participants in information collection to remind them of the rudiment in information collection plan and the ways to foster collaboration and cooperation between their units and intelligence agencies.
The A/CSO urged all the participants to work hard and assimilate as much as they can during the period to improve on their professional knowledge in order to support their units and branch to undertake intelligence-led operations.
He made it known that they would be taken through Contemporary Intelligence Report Writing, Threat Dynamics in Ghana, how to Cultivate and Handle Sources and the Role of Intelligence in Preventing and Combating Violence Extremism, among others. He therefore encouraged them to comport themselves and be punctual to derive maximum benefit from the seminar.
Present at the event were Chief G2 (Trg) – Colonel David Mensah; GSOI G2 (OPINT) – Lieutenant Colonel Miezah Blay Anyimiah, and SOII G2 (Training) – Major Felix Wesoamo Adongo.
Credit: GHANA ARMY PR
