{"id":281699,"date":"2017-01-04T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281699"},"modified":"2017-01-04T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T15:56:51","slug":"nana-addo-names-kan-dapaah-as-national-security-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/nana-addo-names-kan-dapaah-as-national-security-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo names Kan-Dapaah as National Security Minister"},"content":{"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.<\/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":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[8,3,2568,2569],"yoast_head":"\n