The Ranking Member on Parliament's Defence and Interior Committee, Reverend , has criticised President 's recent overhaul of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) leadership.
In a post on X on March 18, 2025, Rev Ntim Fordjour expressed alarm over Mahama's decision to dismiss the Chief of Defence Staff, all service chiefs, and 12 senior military officers of the rank of Major-General and above, spanning two-star, three-star, and four-star generals.
The MP for Assin South argued that most of the affected officers, by rank and age, had up to six more years of service before retirement, and that their abrupt removal would place a significant financial burden on the public purse. "President Mahama has, today, dismissed the Chief of Defence Staff and all service chiefs in the Ghana Armed Forces and all 12 most senior military officers of the rank of Major-General equivalent and above (i.e., all 2-star Generals, 3-star Generals, and 4-star General). "Most of these Generals, by rank and age, have six (6) more years to serve in the military before their retirement.
What this implies for the public purse is that gratuities will have to be paid, running into millions of cedis, due to the egoistic, premature dismissals of senior-ranked generals, replacing them with lower-ranked Brigadier Generals and equivalent (1-star Generals) at the command of the Ghana Armed Forces," he wrote.
