Lieutenant General Albert Kwesi Ocran (21 July 1929 – March 2019) was a soldier and politician.
Ocran was commissioned as an officer in the Gold Coast Regiment of the United Kingdom's Royal West African Frontier Force in 1954.
[3] He was promoted to Brigadier following the coup and made Chief of Army Staff, a position he held for six months.
This led to the overthrow of the Convention People's Party (CPP) government of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on 24 February 1966.
[3] After the parliamentary election of 1969, Ocran became one of three members of an interim Presidential Commission which ushered in the second republic.