{"id":301674,"date":"2017-03-14T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=301674"},"modified":"2017-03-14T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:30:32","slug":"kwame-takyi-named-new-immigration-service-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=301674","title":{"rendered":"Kwame Takyi named new Immigration Service boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has named Kwame Asuah Takyi as the new Immigration Service boss. He will be deputized by Laud Kwasi Ofori Affrifah, as Ag. Deputy Comptroller General (Operations).<\/p>\n<p>A press release signed by the Chief Director of the Ministry of the Interior, Adelaide Anno-Kumi, said \u201cHis Excellency the President of the Republic, pursuant to Section 14 (1) of the Immigration Service Act , 2006 (Act 908) has made the following appointments at the Immigration Service:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi \u2013 Ag. Comptroller-General<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Laud Kwasi Ofori Affrifah \u2013 Ag. Deputy Comptroller-General (Operations)&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi, whose appointments took effect on 1<sup>st<\/sup> March, was the acting Deputy Director in charge of Legal.<\/p>\n<p>The release added that, Kwame Asuah Takyi will take over from Mr. Felix Yaw Sarpong, who is currently on terminal leave prior to compulsory retirement, while Kwasi Ofori-Affrifah takes over from Bonaventure Kwasi Agortimevor, who is also on terminal leave ahead of his compulsory retirement.<\/p>\n<p>It however noted that, Judith Djokoto-Lomoh, and Victoria Ninette Baaba Asare, remain Deputy Comptroller-General responsible for Finance and Administration as well as Legal respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has named Kwame Asuah Takyi as the new Immigration Service boss. He will be deputized by Laud Kwasi Ofori Affrifah, as Ag. Deputy Comptroller General (Operations). A press release signed by the Chief Director of the Ministry of the Interior, Adelaide Anno-Kumi, said \u201cHis Excellency the President of the Republic, pursuant to Section [&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],"tags":[3,182],"class_list":["post-301674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-immigration-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301674","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=301674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}