The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, announced the appointment on Friday, October 13, according to a statement on the UN’s website.

Major General Vib-Sanziri succeeds Major General Jai Shanker Menon of India.

Since joining the Ghanaian Armed Forces in 1985, Major General Francis Vib-Sanziri has served in many capacities and has been the Director-General of the International Peace Support Operations at the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces since April 2017.

He also served as Assistant Director, Ghana Army Operations (1996-1998), Deputy Head of the Ghana Military Academy (2002-2004), Commanding Officer of an Infantry Battalion (2004-2009), Director for International Peacekeeping Support Operations in 2009 and Army Secretary at the Army Headquarters (2010-2011).

Major General Vib-Sanziri’s peacekeeping experience includes deployments to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in 1988 and 1991, United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) in 1993 and 1994 and the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) in 2007.

He holds a master’s degree in military art and science from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, in the United States, a post-graduate certificate in public administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography and rural resource development from the University of Ghana.

He is a graduate of the Nigerian Armed Forces Command and General Staff College, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College and the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The over 2000 students at the school depend on an 8-seater toilet facility as the only place of convenience.

It is a sight to behold in the mornings as students form long queues waiting for their turns to use the facility.

In an interview with Citi News, the senior prefect of the school, Douglas Benni, lamented that the situation is adversely affecting academic work.

He said students have to wait for several hours to access the toilet facility instead of going for classes “and we have only one toilet which has four holes for the boys and four for the girls. We are many here and find it difficult to access it at a time especially in the mornings when we supposed to be preparing for classes. We queue for many hours and usually get to class late.”

He called on government and all other relevant authorities to urgently intervene to address the problem.

The Headmaster of the school, Gaeten Bayel, said the situation is creating serious disciplinary problems on campus.

He was worried that the problem has compelled some students to defecate in unauthorized places at the blind side of the school’s authorities.

“Feces that the facility collects in a day is so huge such that it normally doesn’t take time before its filled up. This gives out a very pungent scent. When students use it, it’s as if they have been smeared with the feces. We have tried so many times to solve the problem but it hasn’t been successful to the extent that some of them defecate anyhow,” the headmaster lamented.

The Wa Secondary Technical School, which was established in 1983 may have endured a difficult path until 2012 when it transited into a boarding house.

By: Mahama Latif/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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