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The Chief Director of the Ministry of the Interior, Mrs. Adelaide Anno-Kumi, has been honoured as the 6th best performed Chief Director in Ghana’s Civil Service for 2020 at the 2021 Civil Service Awards Ceremony held at the Accra International Conference Centre. ‘Madam, you are being recognised as one of the Outstanding Chief Directors of the Civil Service 2020 for your continuous commitment and dedication to fulfilling your deliverables in the Ghana Civil Service’, the citation read. Other officers from the Ministry who also received awards are, Mr. Egyaboaful Anan-Kakabaah, Director Finance, for Commitment and Dedication to the Civil...

The Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior has called on the Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery at the Ministry in Accra to familiarize themselves with the current operations of the Ministry and also to inform the Minister of the Committee’s plan to visit some Agencies under the Ministry. The Members were; Hon. Kenndy Agyapong, Chairman of the Committee and Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Hon. James Agalga, a Ranking Member and also MP for Builsa North, Hon. Cletus Avoka, MP for Zebilla East, Hon. Helen Ntoso, MP for Krachi West, Hon. Christian Otuteye, MP...

The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery, on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 inaugurated a 15-member Governing Board of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) to oversee the operations of the Commission in Accra. The Board, chaired by Mr. J. Kaiffe Mensah, has Ms. Aba Jacqueline Opoku of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO); Mrs. Delese A.A. Darko, CEO of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA); Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir, Ghana Prisons Service; Mr. Laud Ofori Affrifa, Ghana Immigration Service; Mrs. Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa, Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice; and Mr. Francis K. Torkonoo, Acting Director-General...

A joint United Nations (UN) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) high level delegation on Thursday, October 29, 2020, called on the Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery at his office in Accra ahead of the December 7, Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The delegation, which is on election mission to Ghana, had Dr. Ibn Chambers, Special representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) for West Africa and the Sahel and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), H.E. Gana Wakil, ECOWAS Resident Representative in Ghana and Charles Abani, UN resident...

Government is collaborating with the Ghana Health Service and other stakeholders to improve health systems in Ghana’s prisons, the Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has disclosed. In line with this programme, over forty (40) medical personnel have been seconded from the Ghana Health Service and posted to various prison establishments, while a national policy has also been launched to register all inmates onto the National Health Insurance Scheme. Vice President Bawumia, who made the disclosure at the Graduation Parade of Officer Cadet Course Intake 26 of the Ghana Prisons Service on 26 on Friday, 18 October...