Captain (retd) Kojo Tsikata, the former head of National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), has passed on.

According to sources, the former member of the Council of State has been unwell until his death. The cause of his death has not been disclosed so far.

He was appointed in 1982 under the Jerry Rawlings administration and had been in charge of national security since 1982 and later joined the Rawlings administration on January 21, 1995.

The deceased was a captain of the Ghana Army.