Stephen Otu volunteered for service in the Gold Coast Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force.
A decade later, in 1958, he became one of the original officers of the Ghana Regiment, when the Gold Coast gained its independence.
[2] In 1961 the remaining British Army personnel left Ghana and Major-General S.J.A.
Otu [3] succeeded Major General Henry Templer Alexander,[4] a British officer on loan, taking overall command as the first Ghanaian officer to become the Chief of Defence Staff of the Republic.
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