Major General Daniel K. Addo is a former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces.
[2] In June 1971, he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff by the Busia government, a position he still occupied at the time of the coup d'état that replaced it with the National Redemption Council military government.
[3] The NRC government appointed Major General Addo as the Commissioner for Agriculture,[4] a positioned he held between 1972 and 1973.
In 1982, Daniel Addo had two of his houses confiscated by the "One Man One House" Investigation Sub-Committee under the auspices of the Provisional National Defence Council military government on the grounds that he had acquired them illegally.
He appealed unsuccessfully to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice in 1994 to have the houses returned to him.