Lieutenant General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine, the retired Ghanaian soldier and politician has passed on.
The 86-year-old Lt Gen is survived by a wife and eight children.
Family sources confirmed the death of the man who was the first commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1978 to 1981.
He was also a former Chief of Army Staff of the Ghana Army and commanded the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
He had his training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and also attended the Staff College, Camberley in England.
Lt. Gen. Erskine was one of the founding members of the People’s Heritage Party (PHP).
Background
Daily Graphic’s Regional Editor, Edmund Smith Asante filed the following report on Lt. Gen Erskine in 2018.
Source:www.graphic.com.gh