Meet Ambassador Daniel Kufour Osei: The Husband Of The Minister For Sanitation, Cecilia Dapaah

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah, has made news headlines following news of $1 million, €300, 000 and millions of Ghana Cedis being stolen from her home in Abelemkpe, a suburb of Accra.

Many Ghanaians are asking how Cecilia Dapaah came by such an amount of wealth given the salary she draws as a minister.

Not much is being said about the minister’s husband, Daniel Osei Kufuor, who according to the court documents lost six pieces of Kente cloth worth GH¢90,000 and six sets of men’s suits valued at US$3,000 and could own some of the money that was stolen.

But who exactly is Daniel Osei Kufuor

Daniel Osei Kufuor is the inaugural President of the Council on Foreign Relations-Ghana (CFR-Ghana); an independent, private, non-partisan, and non-profit institution specializing in Ghana’s foreign policy and international affairs, especially those relating to the West African sub-region and Africa.

Ambassador Daniel Kufour Osei has been a diplomat across Africa and beyond, with 34 years of experience in high-level diplomacy. He has expertise in conflict resolution, interpretation, negotiation and mediation, preventive diplomacy and public diplomacy.

He has been a Diplomat-In-Resident at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), University of Ghana, from 2009 to date.

He was the Executive Secretary to President John Agyekum Kufour from 2001 to 2008.

He holds a post-graduate degree in International Relations from the University of Ghana, and a DESS in International Relations from the Institut International d’administration Publique (IIAP), Paris, France. He is n old student of the Achimota School.

Ambassador Daniel Kufour Osei has received several awards for his diplomatic work including the Commandant de l’ordre de Moyo issued by the Republic of Togo; the Companion of the Order of the Volta, issued by President Kufuor in 2008 and the Kanselarij der Nederlandse Orden’s- Gravenhage issued by Her Majesty the Queen of The Netherlands.