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The Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah has been given a two-year contract after he attained the compulsory retirement age of 60 on Saturday.
This followed approval by President Nana Akufo-Addo on the recommendation of the Authority’s board that Prof Attafuah should be made to stay on for two more years.
In a memo signed by the head of administration and human resources, W.K. Baffoe-Mensah, Prof Attafuah’s contract takes effect from Monday, November 11, 2019, to November 10, 2021,
President Akufo-Addo first appointed the criminologist to the NIA executive position on January 27, 2017.
He was the first Executive Secretary of the NIA under President John Agyekum Kufuor’s administration.
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