Daasebre Otuo Siriboe II who is the Chairman of the 8th Council had previously served as a member of the Council of State between 2001 and 2009 during the presidency of H.E. John A. Kuffor.

The Chairman of the 8th Council, is an Electrical Engineer by profession. He graduated from the then University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in 1969 with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

As the Chairman of the 7th Council, Daasebre Otuo Siriboe II led the re-engineering of the operations of the Council of State, which culminated in the passage of the Council of State Act, 2020(Act 1037) to which the President gave his assent on 23rd December, 2020. The Act among other things provides for the establishment of a Secretariat and other relevant structures for the establishment of a Secretariat and other relevant structures for the attainment of the mandate of the Council.

Daasebre Otuo Serebuo II has a record of long service to the nation. He was a key member of the Constituent Assembly of 1979 and the Consultative Assembly of 1992 which drafted the 1979 and 1992 Republican Constitutions respectively. He once chaired the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Board, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology(KNUST) Council. He has also served as a member of several other Boards including the Lands Commission, the Ghana Trade Fair Authority, the Prisons Service Council and Anglogold Ashanti.

In private life Nana has been a farmer and industrialist. In 2015 he was adjudged the best large scale oil palm farmer in Ghana. His agro processing company, Juaben Oil Mills Limited, employing about four hundred people is the largest indigenously owned oil palm processing faculty in the country.

In 2003, KNUST, awarded him an honorary Doctorate Degree D.Sc.(Honoris Causa) for outstanding leadership in traditional leadership in traditional governance and contributions to agriculture and agro-industrial development. Again in 2007, the Government of Ghana conferred on him the Order of the Star Ghana, the highest award the nation bestows on its citizens who have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of endeavor and have made profound contributions to the progress of the nation.

Nana Otuo Siriboe II is celeberating his 52nd Anniversary as Omanhene of the Asante Juaben Traditional Area this year, having been enstooled in 1971.

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