Seasoned private legal practitioner Kwame Osei-Prempeh has been appointed as the acting Managing Director and Group Chief Executive of GOIL Company Limited.

The appointment by the Board of Directors of GOIL took effect from June 3, a statement by issued Wednesday by the Public Relations Manager of the company, Robert Kyere, announced.

Mr. Osei-Prempeh has been a Board Member of GOIL since 2017. He takes over from Mr. Patrick Akorli who has taken his leave prior to retirement after 23 years of service to GOIL.

Mr Osei-Prempeh has a wealth of experience in public service and in private practice as a senior legal practitioner.

He served as Ghana’s Deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from June 2006 to January 2009 and was the Member of Parliament for Nsuta Kwamang Beposo in the Ashanti Region between 1997 and 2013.