Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Daniel K. Addo is a former Chief of the Defence Staff of the

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. He is a

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soldier and politician.

Career

Daniel Addo was once Commander of the Second Infantry Brigade Group (now the Northern Command) of the

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. The headquarters was at

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. He had responsibility for all units in the northern half of Ghana. He became Chief of Army Staff in August 1969. In June 1971, he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff by the

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, a position he still occupied at the time of the coup d'état that replaced it with the

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military government. He was relieved of his post after the coup.

Politics

The NRC government appointed Major General Addo as the Commissioner for Agriculture, a positioned he held between 1972 and 1973. He was later replaced with Colonel Frank Bernasko.

Personal problems

In 1982, Daniel Addo had two of his houses confiscated by the "One Man One House" Investigation Sub-Committee under the auspices of the

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military government on the grounds that he had acquired them illegally. This was under military decrees of the previous

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military government. He appealed unsuccessfully to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in 1994 to have the houses returned to him.

References

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