L. K. Kodjiku

Kodjiku begun as a teacher in 1955, teaching in primary, middle, and secondary schools and also Polytechnics until 1962 when he enrolled at the University of Ghana. Following his studies at the University of Ghana, he taught briefly at Prempeh College prior to his commissioning into the Ghana Armed Forces Education Corps in 1965. From 1965 until 1967, he taught at the Ghana Military Academy, he was later moved to the Ministry of Defence where he served as the Staff Officer of the ministry's Education Directorate from 1967 to 1973.^[4]

Upon the establishment of the National Service Secretariat in 1973, Kodjiku was appointed the secretariat's first director.^[5] He served in this capacity until 1975. In 1975, when the National Redemption Council (NRC) was reconstituted into the Supreme Military Council (SMC), he was appointed as the Regional Commissioner for the Ashanti Region.^[6][7] He worked in this office until 1977 when he was appointed Greater Accra Regional Commissioner.^[8][9] In 1979, he was appointed Regional Commissioner for the Northern Region under the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.^[10] In 1992, he became a member of the 1992 Electoral Commission.^[4]

Kodjiku retired from public service in 1980 and went into farming. His hobbies included reading and hunting.^[4] He was married with four children.^[6]

L. K. Kodjiku died in 2022, at the age of 91.^[11]