Shakeup rocks National Security Capos

President Nana Akufo-Addo has made some key administrative reassignments at the country’s National Security apparatus and as part of the changes, appointed Mr. Edward Kwaku Asomani to act as National Security Co-ordinator and also appointed Nana Attobrah Quaicoe to act as Director General of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) with effect from today, Monday, August 8, 2022.

The confirmation of Mr. Asomani’s appointment to become the substantive National Security Co-ordinator and Nana Atobrah Quaicoe to become substantive Director General of the NBI are subject to the receipt of the constitutionally required advice of the National Security Council, which is to be given in consultation with the Public Services Commission.

The information of the new leadership for the National Security apparatus was contained in a statement signed by Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Office of the President and issued on Saturday August 6.

Edward Asamani, until this morning, was the Deputy National Security Co-ordinator while Nana Atobrah Quaicoe was the Deputy Director General at the NIB.

The former Director General of the NIB, Kwaku Domfeh, has been reassigned by President Akufo-Addo as Ambassador-designate to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nana Akufo-Addo has also reassigned Ambassador Major General (Rtd) Francis Adu-Amanfoh, who was the National Security Coordinator to act as Special Advisor to the President for the Accra Initiative.

Amb. Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Francis Adu-Amanfoh will be working out of the Office of the President.

The Accra Initiative, for which Amb. Maj. Gen. (Rtd) Francis Adu-Amanfoh has been reassigned as Special Advisor, was launched in September 2017 by Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire as a vehicle for enhanced security co-operation amongst the countries, in response to the growing threats of terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa.

Kwaku Asomani

Edward K. Asomani, an alumnus of the University of Oxford, the University of Manchester, Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Ghana is a tried and tested resource of enormous value at the National Security Secretariat.