Former Chief of Defence Staff Joshua Hamidu dies

Emmanuel Tornyi 11:57 - 02 February 2021

Joshua Hamidu Chief of Defense Staff

Former <a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/news/local/chief-of-defence-staff-launches-investigations-into-michel-camp-bomb-explosions/jq0nw00">Chief of Defence Staff</a> and member of the Supreme Military Council government, Lieutenant General Joshua Mahamadu Hamidu, has died.

According to reports, he died at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra where he was on admission receiving treatment.

He was 85-year-old.

He was appointed National Security Advisor to the Kufuor government in 2001.

He has also been the chairman of the Narcotics Control Board of Ghana.

In 2005, he was Ghana's High Commissioner to Nigeria.

Joshua Hamidu had been accused in some circles of being implicated in the killing of the Overlord of Dagbon, the late Ya-Na, Yakubu Andani II in March 2002.

The Wuaku Commission which investigated the circumstances leading to the tragedy cleared him of any wrongdoing.