Retirement Musings

Commissioned as an Armoured Reconnaissance (Recce) officer in 1973 after his cadet training in Ghana and Canada, Brig Gen Dan Frimpong retired in 2014 as the Deputy Commandant of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College after over forty-three years’ service.

He commanded the Ghana Military Academy from 1998 to 2002 and was Ghana’s first Military Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations, New York from 2002 to 2006.

Between 2008-2009, he served in Uganda as the UN’s Senior Military Adviser to former President of Mozambique HE Joaquim Chissano, SESG of the Secretary-General for the Lord’s Resistance Army Affected Areas of Uganda, DRC, South Sudan and Central African Republic.

Gen Frimpong holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He also has a BA (Honours) degree in English and Philosophy from the University of Ghana, Legon after which he was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy.

He is the Chairman of the Council of the Family Health University College, Ghana’s premier private medical school.

In retirement in 2017, he was the CEO of the African Peace Support Trainers Association, Nairobi, Kenya.