National Cadet Corps (Ghana)

National Cadet Corps
Active	1954 – present
Role	Military Trainee Uniformed Group
Size	23,603+[1]
Headquarters	Accra
Motto	Discipline and Loyalty
Website	ghanacadet.com
Commanders
Director General	Lieutenant General Nicholas Nii Tettey-Amarteifio[2]

The National Cadet Corps (NCCG) of Ghana is an amalgamation of Army (GA), Navy (GN), Air Force (GHF), Police (GPS) and the Fire (GNFRS) Cadets in Ghana. It came into establishment in 2002 under the ministry of education, presently Ministry of Youth and Sports.

National Coordinator General

• Mr. Nicholas Nii Tettey-Amarteifio – National Cadet Coordinator General, Commander of the National Cadet Corps, Ghana
• Charles Yaw Aheto-Tsegah – Chief Staff Officer, Second in Command

History

The Cadet Corps, Ghana was first established in 1954 at the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS), Takoradi in the Western Region (with just a handful of student cadet). Currently the Corps has membership school strength of about two-hundred and twenty-three (223) and a numerical strength of about twenty-three thousand three-hundred and eighty (23,380) in all the ten regions of Ghana.

Structure

The national cadet corp has the following as its command and administrative structures.

• His Excellency the President – Commandant In Chief of the Cadet Corps
• His Excellency the Vice President – Deputy Commandant In Chief of the Cadet Corps
• Minister of Education and Sports – Patron of the Cadet
• Minister for Defence – Patron of the Cadet
• Deputy Minister for Education and Sports – Deputy Patron of the Cadet
• Ministry Directors
• Cadet Headquarters
• Sectoral Headquarters
• Regional Headquarters
• District Headquarters
• Schools Cadet Corps

Ranks

The senior most cadet in an institution uses the following ranks;

• SUO [ Senior Under officer ] – Officer Commanding the school
• JUO [ Junior Under Officer ] – Second In Command
• OC [ Officer Commanding ] – Adjutant
• CDT WOI
• CDT WOII
• CDT S/SGT
• CDT SGT
• CDT L/CPL
• CDT CPL
• CDT PRIVATE

The other ranks structure is equivalent to the various security services' ranks. Whereas the officers ranks remain the same.

See also

• Military of Ghana

References

External links

• The National Cadet Corps, Ghana (NCCG)