Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo was a

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former military officer and served as the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from August 1983 to September 1989. He took over from Flight Lieutenant J. J. Rawlings and handed over to Lieutenant General Winston Mensa-Wood. He was also the first commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) which intervened in

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to help end the civil war. He also served twice as Army Commander, first in 1979 following the coup-d'état by the

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which overthrew the Supreme Military Council. He was replaced when the Limann government was elected. He was however re-appointed as Chief of Army Staff following the coup by the

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and later as General Officer Commanding the Ghana Armed Forces. In 2014, Quainoo denied any responsibility for the death of Liberian President Samuel Doe. Quainoo died at the 37 Military Hospital in

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on Monday, December 2, 2024, at the age of 82.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quainoo, Arnold Chiefs of the Defence Staff (Ghana) 20th-century births Living people Chiefs of Army Staff (Ghana) Members of the Council of State (Ghana) St. Augustine's College (Cape Coast) alumni Year of birth missing (living people)