Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo was a Ghanaian former military officer and served as the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces from August 1983 to September 1989.
[1] He was also the first commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) which intervened in Liberia to help end the civil war.
He was however re-appointed as Chief of Army Staff following the coup by the Provisional National Defence Council[3] and later as General Officer Commanding the Ghana Armed Forces.
[4] In 2014, Quainoo denied any responsibility for the death of Liberian President Samuel Doe.
[5] Quainoo died at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra on Monday, December 2nd, 2024, at the age of 82.