Joseph Nunoo-Mensah

Joseph Nunoo-Mensah
Born	14 February 1939 (1939-02-14) (age 72) Winneba, Ghana
Allegiance	Ghana
Service/branch	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 Ghanaian soldier and politician. He is a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces. He was also a member of the Provisional National Defence Council government which overthrew the government of Dr. Hilla Limann in 1981.

Early life and education

Nunoo-Mensah was born at Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana in 1939. He received his basic education at the Winneba Presbyterian Primary School and Winneba Methodist Middle School between 1945 and 1954. His secondary education was at the Ghana Secondary School, also at Winneba.^[1]

Career

Nunoo-Mensah enlisted with the Ghana Military Academy in 1961.

Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah was appointed Chief of Defence Staff by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council government in 1979. Nunoo-Mensah was retired in November 1979 by the People's National Party government of Dr. Limann.^[2]

Politics

Nunoo-Mensah was appointed a member of the PNDC on 2 January 1982.^[2] He however resigned in November 1982 over differences with Rawlings.^[3] He is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He was the campaign manager for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's bid for nomination as the party's candidate for the Ghanaian presidential elections in 1998.

Nunoo-Mensah later defected from the New Patriotic Party to the National Democratic Congress, 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.

Nunoo-Mensah was very instrumental in the campaign of the opposition NDC in the December 2008 elections in Ghana. He is currently the Security Advisor to the newly-elected President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills of the NDC.^[4][1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "BRIG.JOSEPH NUNOO-MENSAH". Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College. http://gafcsc.org/Sub_pages/past_comdt2.html. Retrieved 2011-09-17. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "The Security Services" (pdf). National Reconciliation Commission report. Ghana government. October 2004. pp. page 52. http://www.ghana.gov.gh/NRC/Vol%204%20Chpt%201%20com.sec.rep.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-29. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ ""Chapter 2— Ghana in Economic Crisis" in The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982–1991". pp. pp32. http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft2199n7n7&chunk.id=d0e1725&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e1156&brand=eschol. Retrieved 2007-04-29. 
4. ^ "Don't base choice of running mates on ethnicity". General News (MODERN GHANA). 2000-07-19. http://www.modernghana.com/GhanaHome/NewsArchive/news_details.asp?t=mg&id=VDFSWk1VOUJQVDA9&menu_id=1&sub_menu_id=0&gender=General%20News. Retrieved 2007-04-29. 

Military offices
Preceded by Colonel E. D. F. Prah	Chief of the Defence Staff 1979	Succeeded by Major General Edwin K. Sam
Preceded by Air Vice-Marshal J. E. Odaate - Barnor	Chief of the Defence Staff 1982	Succeeded by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings

Persondata
Name	Nunoo-Mensah, Joseph
Alternative names
Short description	Former Chief of Defence Staff of Ghana and former member of Provisional National Defence Council government
Date of birth	1939-02-14
Place of birth	Winneba, Ghana
Date of death	Living
Place of death