Lieutenant General (Retired) Joshua Mahamadu Hamidu, a former Chief of Defence Staff and member of the Supreme Military Council government is dead.
According to MyNewsGh.com, he reportedly died at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra where he was on admission receiving treatment on Monday night.
Family sources reveal to MyNewsGh.com that funeral arrangements are expected to be announced later in view of the ban on such events by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
The 85-year-old security Capo served as a National Security adviser to President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2001. He has also been Chairman of Narcotics Control Board and some boards of Bank of Ghana as well.
He served as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Nigeria as well and known widely as the father of military intelligence.
Source: mynewsgh.com
