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A former National Security Coordinator and
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah has
congratulated President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for making good
choices as appointees to lead the national security outfit.
In a radio
interview on Citi FM in response to the announcement of the appointments on
Wednesday, Brig Gen Nunoo-Mensah said he has faith in Nana Addo, that he would
deliver.
“Nana Addo, the in-coming President, I know him very well, I
know he will make a very impressive leader….they will do their job very
well.”
“I don’t have anything against those appointments. The
background is very impressive. Everyone of them. We have many people in Ghana
who have very impressive backgrounds, so I don’t really have anything against
those choices, I know they will do very well and I wish them well,” the NDC
member and elder statesman said.
National Security
Minister
On the re-introduction of the Minister for National
Security, Brig Gen Nunoo-Mensah who was also one time a National Security
Advisor and served as Head of Human Security under President John Mahama said,
“I know Mr Kan Dapaah very well and he is a very capable
person.”
“We have very capable people in Ghana today and why the
nation isn’t moving forward, I’m worried myself why we are not making any
headway.”
To him, it was not only on the President and his team that
Ghana would have to rest, but all Ghanaians would have to contribute to move the
country forward.
“If you have a very impressive team, an impressive
manager in a football match, and a player don’t play well, what do you do? You
can’t win the match for them, so we all have to play our roles effectively,
every one of us. Those in NPP, those of us not there, all of us have to put
ourselves to the wheel and move Ghana forward, because Ghana has many problems
that have to be tackled and all of us have to be on board to tackle them,”
he said.
Appointments
The President-elect, Nana
Addo on Wednesday announced Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah as Minister designate for the
National Security Ministry.
Other appointees announced were also
Brigadier General Emmanuel Okyere, as National Security Advisor and Mr Joshua
Kyeremeh as National Security Co-Ordinator.
Brigadier General Okyere is a
military engineer and holds an Executive Master’s Degree in Governance and
Leadership from GIMPA. He is also a graduate of the Ghana Military Academy and
has a solid military background, having done almost 40 years of distinguished
service with the colours.
He served in various capacities in both the
military and local government. He served as the Metropolitan Chief Executive of
the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly from 1995 to 1996; and from 2006 to 2010, he
was the General Officer Commanding the Southern Command
Mr Joshua
Kyeremeh on his part is a product of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, and a former Director of the Bureau of National Investigations
(BNI). He worked at the BNI for about 22 years, where he served at command
levels in the Northern, Upper East, Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions. He also
served as head of the Investigations Unit of the Bureau.
He rose to
become the Deputy Director BNI and ultimately, the Director BNI from 2005 to
2009.
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