Michael Otu

{{Infobox military person

|name= Michael Otu

|birth_date= 25 October 1925

|death_date= {{death date and age|2006|10|08|1925|10|25|df=y}}

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|nickname=

|birth_place=Adukrom, Ghana

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|allegiance={{flag|Ghana}}

|branch=Ghana Army
{{Air force|Ghana}}

|serviceyears=1943 – 1971

|rank=Air Marshal

|unit=

|commands=Chief of Defence Staff
Air Force Commander

|battles=

|awards=Order of the Star of Ghana

|relations=Beatrice Agyepomaa Otu (wife)
Abena, Emma, Kwame, Fiifi and Maama (children)

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}}

Air Marshal Michael Akuoko Otu (25 October 1925 – 8 October 2006) was a senior commander in the Ghana Air Force who served as Chief of Air Staff and then Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces.

Honours

  • July 2006 - Order of the Star of Ghana{{cite news |url=http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?section=12&newsid=2079 |title=Biography of the late Air Marshall Otu |accessdate=2007-04-14 |publisher=The Statesman |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928071857/http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?section=12&newsid=2079 |archivedate=2007-09-28 }}

References

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{{s-bef|before=Air Commodore J.E.S. de Graft-Hayford}}

{{s-ttl|title=Chief of Air Staff|years=1963 – 1968}}

{{s-aft|after=Air Commodore N. Y. R. Ashley-Larsen}}

{{s-bef|before=Rear Admiral David Animle Hansen}}

{{s-ttl|title=Chief of Naval Staff |years=1967 – 1968}}

{{s-aft|after=Commodore Philemon F. Quaye}}

{{s-bef|before=Lieutenant General J. A. Ankrah}}

{{s-ttl|title=Chief of Defence Staff |years=1968}}

{{s-aft|after=Lieutenant General Albert Kwasi Ocran}}

{{s-bef|before=Lieutenant General Albert Kwasi Ocran}}

{{s-ttl|title=Chief of Defence Staff |years=1969 – 1971}}

{{s-aft|after=Major General D.K. Addo}}

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Category:1925 births

Category:2006 deaths

Category:Ghana Air Force air marshals

Category:Ghanaian soldiers

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Star of Ghana

Category:Chiefs of Naval Staff (Ghana)

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