Former IGP Peter Nanfuri has died

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Former IGP Peter Nanfuri has died

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February 17, 2023

Former IGP and Paramount Chief of Jirapa, Naa Peter Nanfuri

The death has been reported of the Former Inspector General of Police(IGP) under the Jerry John Rawlings regime Peter Tenganabang Nanfuri has died.

Family sources available to MyNewsGh.com reveal the former police chief died on Thursday February 16, 2023..

Mr Nanfuri tagged a ‘No Nonsense man’ was the Director of the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) 1986. In 1996, he was appointed as the Inspector General of Police.
After his service in the Ghana Police Service, he was enskinned Paramount Chief of the Jirapa Traditional Area with the title Naa Ansoleh Ganaa II in 2007.

He was born in October 12, 1942 in Jirapa in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He had his university education at the University of Ghana, Legon.

Source: Mynewsgh.com

One response to “Former IGP Peter Nanfuri has died”

Ballans Naah Henry

February 18, 2023

We don’t have the Waala tribe as purported. The indigenous tribe of the wa land was originally occupied by the Briffor. Amidst the closeness of the Dagaaba at chaire, loho, gule, bamahu and surrounding. villages. The so called waala are a mixture of the marriage of the Dagaaba and the Wangara, the Moshi, zabarama and other normadics who came as a result of trade, invasion of the Western Upper West due slave raid another environment hazards of the Western and northern zone of the area.

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