Daniel Opande

Who is Daniel Opande?

Daniel Ishmael Opande is a retired Kenyan military officer, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Kenyan Army. His date of birth was 18 August 1943.

He is a graduate of the British Army's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. General Opande was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in graduating from Sandhurst in 1964. General Opande is also a graduate of the British Army's Staff College, Camberley and the U.S. National Defense University at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington DC.

General Opande served as Deputy Force Commander with the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group in Namibia from 1989 to 1990. Before serving as UNTAG DFC, he had been the Kenyan Army's director of operations. He represented the Kenyan government in the negotiation of the Mozambique peace process from 1990 to 1993. He then was sent to Liberia as the Chief Military Observer of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, General Opande appears to have filled posts in Kenya, and likely served as Commandant of the National Defence College, Kenya's highest military institution, during that period. In 1998, General Opande, listed in Chinese sources as president of the Institute for National Defence, visited the People's Republic of China.