{"id":298951,"date":"2017-03-05T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298951"},"modified":"2017-03-05T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:00:55","slug":"igp-cds-appointments-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=298951","title":{"rendered":"IGP, CDS appointments confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COP David Asante-Apeatu has been confirmed as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) by President Nana Akufo-Addo after\u00a0consultation with the Council of State.<\/p>\n<p>Major General Obed Akwa&#8217;s appointment\u00a0as the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) has also been confirmed along with the pick for the Chief of Army Staff, General William Azure Ayamdo.<\/p>\n<p>General William Azure Ayamdo\u00a0thus replaces Major General Akwa who was the Chief of Army Staff. COP Asante-Apeatu also assumed\u00a0the position of acting IGP after the former IGP, John Kudalor&#8217;s retirement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_298953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298953\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-298953 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Major-General-Akwa-563x330-1.jpg\" alt=\"major-general-akwa-563x330-1\" width=\"563\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major General Obed Akwa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Major General Akwa replaces Air Marshal Michael Samson-Oje who will be retiring from the army.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to articles 202 and 212 of the Constitution, President Akufo-Addo made the appointments in consultation with the Council of State, which was constituted in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP David Asante-Apeatu has been confirmed as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) by President Nana Akufo-Addo after\u00a0consultation with the Council of State. Major General Obed Akwa&#8217;s appointment\u00a0as the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) has also been confirmed along with the pick for the Chief of Army Staff, General William Azure Ayamdo. General William Azure [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,11],"tags":[4667,3,1641,156],"class_list":["post-298951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-cds","tag-ghana-news","tag-igp","tag-nana-addo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298951","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=298951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}