President Nana Akufo Addo, on Wednesday, has appointed Bice Osei Kuffour as acting Managing Director of the Ghana Post Company Limited.
Obour is expected to act in the capacity as it is subject to regularization in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Companies Act and the company’s regulation.
He will also be occupied with improving mail security, the existing ancillary services such as financial services to augment the traditional ones and promote all postal products to create awareness of their existence, among other things.
The Musician, who recently contested and lost in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary at Asante Akyem South constituency, joins the Company at a time when it is expanding its postal network and improving its services in areas across the country.
Over the past years, the Company has leveraged technological innovations to allow customers to access Ghana Post services remotely through an online platform, “Ghpostpay”, launched in 2019.
It has also embarked on digitalization agenda that has seen the development of the digital address system and the digitization of post services across all offices in the country.
Some recognition earned by the Company include the Best EMS Call Centre 2017 and Best Customer Care Award 2018, both by the Universal Postal Union in Switzerland.
Profile of Bice Osei Kuffour
Obour was born at “Braha Bebu Me” (Dekyemenso) in the Ashanti Region on 7 November 1981, to Christiana Addo and Reverend B. O. Kuffour. At the age of six, Obour played many types of drums, especially the Atumpan, in the Juaso-Ashanti Akyem chief’s palace where his father used to preside. Obour was educated at the State Experimental School (Kumasi), the Soul Clinic School (Accra), Garison Junior Secondary School (Burma Camp) and Mfantsipim School (Cape Coast).
After finishing secondary school, Obour solicited help from his London-based cousin, J. Amano, who connected him with his personal Soul Records label. He subsequently released Atentenben which won three awards for Soul Records at the Ghana Music Awards in 2002, including Video of the year. This, and other songs by the label, led to Soul Records being awarded with Record Label of the Year. The same video won the Best at Our Music Awards (OMA) in 2002.
He was already a celebrity by the time he entered the University of Ghana in 2002 to study Sociology and Music, as a member of Commonwealth Hall (Vandal City).
Bice Osei Kuffour contested the NPP primaries elections in the Asante Akyem South constituency as a parliamentary candidate. He was later appointed as secretary to the NPP 2020 Campaign Ashanti Region Advertising Committee. Obour is an alumnus of the University of Ghana, the US International Visitor Leadership Programme, Aspen Global Leadership Network, and African Leadership Initiative of West Africa. He was the youngest recipient of the State Grand Medal Honour given by President J. A Kufuor in 2008.
He is a social activist who doubles as a National Road Safety Ambassador; W.H.O Tuberculosis Ambassador British Council & Forest Commission of Ghana Climate Change Ambassador. He is President and Founder of the Christiana Addo Memorial Foundation which promotes education, sanitation, personal hygiene and youth empowerment in Asante Akyem.
He is the immediate past president of the Musicians Union of Ghana, the National Tuberculosis Ambassador of Ghana, Road Safety Ambassador, Executive icon of Youth Icons Africa and a Climate Change Champion for the British Council. He serves on several executive and advisory boards, including the executive committee of the International Federation of Musicians, University of Ghana School of Performing Arts advisory board, National Commission on Culture, National Folklore board and the Ghana Music Rights Organisation board.
