Daniel Addo (soldier)
{{Short description|Ghanaian general}}
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Major General Daniel K. Addo is a former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces. He is a Ghanaian soldier and politician.
Career
Daniel Addo was once Commander of the Second Infantry Brigade Group (now the Northern Command) of the Ghana army. The headquarters was at Kumasi. He had responsibility for all units in the northern half of Ghana.{{cite web|url=http://www.chrajghana.org/chraj/files/Landmark%20Cases%20_combined_x.pdf |title=ADDO v STATE HOUSES ALLOCATION POLICY IMPLEMENTATION COMMISSION (SHAPIC) AND TEMA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (TDC) |accessdate=5 November 2008 |date=16 December 1994 |format=pdf |work=Landmark Cases (combined) |publisher=Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice of Ghana |location=Accra, Ghana |pages=13–17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005141338/http://www.chrajghana.org/chraj/files/Landmark%20Cases%20_combined_x.pdf |archivedate=5 October 2011 }} He became Chief of Army Staff in August 1969.{{cite web |url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?CatId=114 |title=Past Army Commanders / Chiefs of Army Staff |accessdate=5 November 2008 |date=6 February 2008 |work=Official website |publisher=Ghana Armed Forces |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016095237/http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?CatId=114 |archivedate=16 October 2008 }} In June 1971, he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff by the Busia government, a position he still occupied at the time of the coup d'état that replaced it with the National Redemption Council military government. He was relieved of his post after the coup.{{cite web |url=http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?CatId=117 |title=Past General Officers Commanding /chiefs of the Defence Staff |accessdate=5 November 2008 |date=6 February 2008 |work=Official website |publisher=Ghana Armed Forces |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016095242/http://www.gaf.mil.gh/index.php?CatId=117 |archivedate=16 October 2008 }}
Politics
The NRC government appointed Major General Addo as the Commissioner for Agriculture,{{cite web|title=Former Heads of MoFA|url=http://mofa.gov.gh/site/?page_id=6713|work=Official website|publisher=Ministry of Food and Agriculture|accessdate=7 August 2012}} 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 Provisional National Defence Council military government on the grounds that he had acquired them illegally. This was under military decrees of the previous Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Ghana military government. He appealed unsuccessfully to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in 1994 to have the houses returned to him.
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{{s-ttl|title=Minister for Agriculture |years=1972–1973}}
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