It seems President-elect; Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has obviously created a new Ministry prior to the inauguration of his government on January 7, 2017.<\/p>\n
Akufo-Addo, while naming his administrative staff on Wednesday at his Nima residence in Accra, also named Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah, former Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee as the Minister designate for National Security.<\/p>\n
He also named Akosua Frema Osei-Opare as his Chief of Staff, while Abu Jinapor and Francis Asenso-Boakye will serve as her deputies.<\/p>\n
About Kan-Dapaah<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Kan-Dapaah was the Ashanti Region\u2019s Representative on the National Council of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) between 1992 and 1996.<\/p>\n He was also a member of the Finance and Economic Affairs Committee of the NPP.<\/p>\n He won the Afigya-Sekyere seat at the 1996 parliamentary election. He was once a Minister for Energy in the Kufuor government, after the NPP won power in the 2000 elections.<\/p>\n He has also been a Minister for Communications and Technology, and later Minister for Interior during Kufuor’s second term.<\/p>\n He was recently the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.<\/p>\n Below is the full list of Akufo-Addo\u2019s administrative staff:<\/strong><\/p>\n Brigadier General Emmanuel Okyere- National Security Advisor<\/p>\n Joshua Kyeremeh – National Security Coordinator<\/p>\n Akosua Frema Osei-Opare – Chief of Staff<\/p>\n Nana Bediatuo Asante – Secretary to the President<\/p>\n Victor Newman -Director of Research<\/p>\n Francis Asenso-Boakye – Political Assistant to the president and Deputy Chief of Staff<\/p>\n Samuel Abu Jinapor – Deputy Chief of Staff<\/p>\n Clara Napaga Sulemana Tia -Presidential Staffer<\/p>\n Saratu Atta – Personal Assistant to the President<\/p>\n Lord Oblitey Commey – Director of Operations<\/p>\n Eugene Arhin – Director of Communications<\/p>\n Ambassador Hassan Ahmed – Director of State Protocol<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems President-elect; Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has obviously created a new Ministry prior to the inauguration of his government on January 7, 2017. Akufo-Addo, while naming his administrative staff on Wednesday at his Nima residence in Accra, also named Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah, former Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee as the Minister designate for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[8,3,2568,2569],"class_list":["post-281699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-akufo-addo","tag-ghana-news","tag-ken-dapaah","tag-npp-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}