J. E. A. Kotei

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Air Vice-Marshal James Ernest Akrong Kotei (26 October 1940 – 22 April 2010) was a military pilot and diplomat. He served as a Chief of Air Staff of the Ghana Air Force and later as an Ambassador for Ghana.

James was a brother of Robert Kotei.[1] He started his career in 1961 as a MiG-17 pilot and for the rest of his flying career he switched to the Su-7 ground attack aircraft. He was made a senior commander in the Ghana Air Force and Ghanaian Chief of the Air Staff from December 1982 until June 1988.[2]

In late 1988, Kotei was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ghana to the Ivory Coast; he went on to serve as Ghana's ambassador to Guinea[3] until 2001. He died on 25 April 2010.

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  1. Daniel Danquah Damptey, Atta Mills stood aloof whilst acts of tribalism were perpetrated right under his nose, 6 September 2009
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Military offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chief of Air Staff (GAF)
1982 – 1988 Template:S-ttl/check
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Diplomatic posts
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire
1988 – ? Template:S-ttl/check
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Ambassador to Guinea
? – 2001 Template:S-ttl/check
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