In May 2005, John Agyekum Kufour, a Ghanaian army personnel and diplomat, was appointed Head of Defence Intelligence in the Ghana Armed Forces and was posted as Ambassador to Liberia on 27 January 2006.
John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor GCB (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. Kufuor has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Face-of-Good-Governance Award, Chatham House Prize, the Climate Change Award, and the World Food Program's Global Ambassador Against Hunger. Distinction of Grand Cordon in the Most Venerable Order of the Knighthood of the Pioneers of the Republic of Liberia (2008) 
