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GOC Pays Operational Visit to Nkwanta

• 09 Jul
• Admin

General Officer Commanding (GOC) Southern Command, Brig Gen Isaac Nicholas Paintsil, and a team of Staff Officers from the Command have paid an operational and fact-finding visit to Nkwanta, in the Oti region on Monday 7 July 2025.The aim of the visit was for the GOC to ascertain the security situation on the ground to inform tactical decisions at the Higher Command level, in the wake of recent ethnic clashes in the area that have caused some fatalities, leading to the deployment of Military, Police, National Security and Army Special Operations personnel to the area.Brig Gen IN Paintsil, together with the Commander 16 Artillery Brigade in Ho, Brig Gen S Amengor visited troops deployed for internal security operations in the area and received thorough situational briefings from Commanders on the grounds.The Officer Commanding the military detachment in the area, Capt K Atiemo briefed the Generals on some recorded incidents since the deployment in the area, including the killing of two Konkomba youth in the area by stray bullets from a rival faction, apprehension of suspected miscreants by security personnel and the search and seizure of weapons.The GOC and his entourage also toured some hotspots in the town and visited the Nkwanta Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Honourable Joseph Antwi. During the visit, the MCE explained the details of the situation and the dynamic threats posed by the feuding factions in the area. He expressed the need for heightened security presence to help quell the situation. Renewed ethnic tensions between rival groups in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region about a fortnight ago resulted in 3 confirmed fatalities and several injuries. Sporadic gunshots claimed the lives of three students of Nkwanta Senior High School, which has prompted the Ghana Education Service to shut down the school until further notice.