Help correct negative perceptions about GAF - Media urged

Brigadier General Sampson Kudjo Adeti, Chief of Army Staff at the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), has called on the media to help correct the negative perceptions that people have about the GAF.

“We are there to help the vulnerable in society, we stand up for the vulnerable and less privileged in society," he said when the members of the ECOWAS Community Development Programme (CDP) Media Network, Ghana, called on him to officially introduce themselves.

The ECOWAS CDP, Ghana Media Network, is a group of selected media personnel that advocate for free movement of goods and people within the ECOWAS sub-region

The CDP is in line with ECOWAS vision of transforming the West African sub-region into a community where people are able to move about freely without intimidation by the year 2020.

Brig. Gen. Adeti said without the media some of the very good things being done by the Armed Forces will not be known by the populace.

“Soldiers belong to a special part of society, let’s help get rid of the age old mentality that soldiers like to brutalize people, it is never true,” he said and assured the public that the Armed Forces was the only institution able to discipline its members effectively if they offended the citizenry.