Joseph Nunoo-Mensah
Joseph Nunoo-Mensah | |
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Born | Winneba, Ghana | 14 February 1939
Allegiance | Ghana |
Service/ | Ghana Army |
Years of service | 1961 – 1982 |
Rank | Brigadier |
Commands held | Chief of Defence Staff |
Other work | Member of Provisional National Defence Council government. Chief Security Advisor to the President of Ghana. |
Brigadier Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (born 14 February 1939) is a
Early life and education
Nunoo-Mensah was born at
Career
Nunoo-Mensah enlisted with the Ghana Military Academy in 1961.
Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah was appointed
Politics
Nunoo-Mensah was appointed a member of the PNDC on 2 January 1982.[5] He however resigned in November 1982 over differences with Rawlings.[6] He was a member of the
Nunoo-Mensah later defected from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the National Democratic Congress (NDC), then in opposition. He and a number of former military and police capos were banned from all military and police installations by the ruling NPP government after they had attended a lunch meeting with former President Flt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings.[citation needed]
Nunoo-Mensah was very instrumental in the campaign of the opposition NDC in the December 2008 elections in Ghana. In 2009, after the party won the elections he was made the National Security Advisor to the then newly elected president, John Evans Atta Mills of the NDC.[1][3][7]
References
- ^ a b "Rawlings was full of respect and integrity - Nunoo-Mensah". Ghana web. 14 November 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah shares his life story | Footprints". Citi TV. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ a b "BRIG.JOSEPH NUNOO-MENSAH". Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
- ^ "'Why I Weep For Ghana' – Nunoo-Mensah Makes Worrying Revelations Of The State Of Ghana". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ a b "The Security Services" (PDF). National Reconciliation Commission report. Ghana government. October 2004. p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2006. Retrieved 29 April 2007.
- ^ ""Chapter 2— Ghana in Economic Crisis" in The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982–1991". p. 32. Retrieved 29 April 2007.
- ^ "Don't base choice of running mates on ethnicity". General News. MODERN GHANA. 19 July 2000. Retrieved 29 April 2007.