Air Vice-Marshal

Air Vice-Marshal

Air vice-marshal is a two-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in...

 Edward Apau Mantey (born 10 May 1946) was a senior commander in Ghana Air Force

Ghana Air Force

The Ghana Air Force is the air force of the African nation of Ghana. The GAF, along with the Ghanaian Army and Navy, make up the armed forces of Ghana which are controlled by that nation's Ministry of Defence....

 and Ghanaian Chief of the Air Staff from 16 March 2001 until May 2005.

In late 2006, Mantey was appointed as the Ghanaian ambassador to Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

. Currently, Mantey is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Ghana to the Russian Federation.