Background
Nunoo-Mensah was born at Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana in 1939.
Nunoo-Mensah was born at Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana in 1939.
He is a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces. His secondary education was at the Ghana Secondary School, also at Winneba. Nunoo-Mensah enlisted with the Ghana Military Academy in 1961.
Brigadier Nunoo-Mensah was appointed Chief of Defence Staff by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council government in 1979.
Nunoo-Mensah was retired in November 1979 by the People"s National Party government of Doctor Limann. He however resigned in November 1982 over differences with Rawlings.
He and a number of former military and police capos were banned from all military and police installations by the ruling Nuclear Power Plant government after they had attended a lunch meeting with former President Fairlight Lieutenant Josip Juraj Rawlings. Nunoo-Mensah was very instrumental in the campaign of the opposition NDC in the December 2008 elections in Ghana.
He is currently the Security Advisor to the newly elected President, Professor
John Evans Atta Mills of the NDC.
He was the campaign manager for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo"s bid for nomination as the party"s candidate for the Ghanaian presidential elections in 1998. Nunoo-Mensah later defected from the New Patriotic Party to the National Democratic Congress, then in opposition.
He was also a member of the Provisional National Defence Council government which overthrew the government of Doctor Hilla Limann in 1981. Nunoo-Mensah was appointed a member of the PNDC on 2 January 1982. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party.
