Lady who Joined the Army at the Age of 18 Breaks 64-Year-Old Record by Becoming First Female General
- Constance Ama Emefa Edjeani-Afenu has been appointed a General in Ghana's Armed Forces (GAF)
- She makes history as the first woman to occupy the position in the 64-year-old history of the force which weas foundd in 1957
- The General Edjeani-Afenu previously became the first female to be appointed Brigadier General in the GAF
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Constance Ama Emefa Edjeani-Afenu has been appointed a General in Ghana's Armed Forces (GAF) after recently becoming the first female to be appointed Brigadier General.
She once again makes history as the first woman to occupy the position of General, Africafeeds reports.
Source: UGC
Edjeani-Afenu first joined the Armed Forces in 1978 at the age of 18 years and was commissioned into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) on April 25, 1980.
Previous appointments
She made history in 2017 when she was appointed Brigadier General. Edjeani-Afenu told the state-owned newspaper, Daily Graphic that:
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''The welcome to the Military Academy was crude, but I prevailed having come to the realisation that I had already decided to join the service.''
Work experience
With years of experience spanning over four decades, she has risen through the ranks to become the first female General of the Armed Forces.
Becoming Brigadier-General and General adds to her long list of achievements. Edjeani-Afenu was appointed as the Commanding Officer of the Forces Pay Regiment in 1999, making her the first female Commanding Officer in the history of the GAF.
She served in different capacities in her home country and served as Ghana's deputy military advisor to its permanent mission in New York from 2013 to 2016.
In 2019, the United Nations (UN) appointed her as the Deputy Force Commander in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
Nigerian female police officer gets UN honour
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a Nigerian policewoman had been honoured by the UN.
The Nation reports that she was among the 1,300 UN policewomen who were drafted for peacekeeping missions.
Out of those, only 21 were nominated for the award. The winner of the award was Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo of Zambia, an officer who is serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.
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