Kojo Tsikata, ya kasance tsohon Shugaban Tsaron Kasa da Harkokin Waje na Majalisar Tsaro ta Kasa (PNDC). An jera shi a matsayin kyaftin din ritaya a rundunar sojojin Ghana. An tura Tsikata zuwa Kongo tare da Manjo Janar Ankrah a matsayin wani bangare na rundunar sojan Ghana tare da umarni daga Kwame Nkrumah don kare Pan-Africanist kuma mai adawa da mulkin mallaka Patrice Lumumba, wanda shine Firayim Minista. Daga baya ya ziyarci Conakry, Guinea, don ziyartar Nkrumah. An kama shi, aka tsare shi, aka kuma yanke masa hukuncin kisa a matsayin wanda ake zargi da kulla makarkashiya kan Nkrumah a lokacin da ya iso. Samora Machel, mai fafutukar neman 'yanci, ya shiga tsakani don yafe masa. Samora ya yi tafiya tare da shi zuwa Mozambique. Daga baya ya isa Angola a 1964 don shiga cikin mayakan MPLA da mayaƙan duniya daga Cuba. An nada shi a 1982 a karkashin gwamnatin Jerry Rawlings. Ya kasance mai kula da tsaron kasa tun 1982 kuma daga baya ya shiga gwamnatin Rawlings a ranar 21 ga Janairu 1995. Ya kasance memba na majalisar jiha kuma kyaftin na sojojin Ghana.