Kofi Baah-Bentum; A soldier, journalist and PR practitioner

Major Kofi Baah-Bentum (retd) was a platoon commander in the North during the Kokomba –Nanumba crisis. His rank then was lieutenant and his duty was to help restore law and order during the conflict.

After this baptism into peacekeeping, he went on to have stints in Cambodia, South Lebanon, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia.  

Internationally, he boasts 10 peacekeeping medals and peacekeeping operations.

Whether internationally or locally, the images of vulnerable women and children, of hunger, destruction and death have remained on his mind up to this day. 

To him, war is an unacceptable way of resolving misunderstandings because the consequences are too grave and do not really benefit anyone in the end.

Maj Baah-Bentum is the Head of Public Relations and Protocol at the University of Cape Coast. He is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and accredited member of the Institute of Pu