Ghana may soon have female leader – Akufo-Addo

General News on Thursday, June 13, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-06-13

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is said to be convinced that Ghana will soon have a woman president.

In addition to appointing more women to numerous and critical positions in its administration and its state offices, Ghana is working to ensure that in the near future half of the nominations in the country are granted to women.

President Akufo-Addo was responding to questions from Guyanese, Africans and people of African descent at a Durbar meeting for the Ghana delegation in Georgetown, Guyana's capital.

He said that his cabinet had 26% women and that 19% of MPs were women.

Beyond that, he said, very critical state positions were occupied by women, including the position of Chief Justice, although his attorney was the second woman to be appointed to the position. .

President Akufo-Addo said that his other functions in his women's administration were in very critical and sensitive positions, including the Chief of Staff, whose appointment was unprecedented. the Ministers of Communications, Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Justice and Attorney General, Local Government, Fisheries and Aquaculture and Sanitation and Water Resources.

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The President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Mr. David Granger, made the country's highest award to his visiting Ghanaian counterpart, Nana Akufo-Addo, at an impressive but simple ceremony at Baridi Benab, the State House, Georgetown.

A quote accompanying this honor says that the President of Ghana has been recognized for his dedication and commitment to the Commonwealth, the African Union and ECOWAS and for his unfailing support for the rights of developing countries.

Food

At the lunch following the ceremony, members of the Ghanaian delegation expressed surprise at being offered familiar dishes such as grilled tilapia, fufu, sweet corn, jollof rice and kenkey.

The kitchens had local Ghanaian names. Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, was at the state luncheon; the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng-Gyasi; the secretary of the president, Nana Asante Bediatuo; Mr. Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Presidency, and Mr. Akwasi Agyeman, Director General of the Ghana Tourism Authority.

President Akufo-Addo visits Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica.

diasporas

President Akufo-Addo declared in front of the packed hall where the durbar had taken place that his tour was part of activities intended to invite peoples of Africa and African descent and others. sympathetic people to the cause of Africa to reconnect with their ancestors in the series of events nicknamed: & # 39; The year of return & # 39 ;.

He added that this initiative was also intended to ensure that the slave trade never happens again.

He also used the opportunity of the tour for investments, education and links.

Air Transport

The President stated that Ghana and Guyana were working to ensure that there are direct flights to and from the countries to facilitate travel and allow everyone to return to the country. home because "it will reduce flight time to six hours, instead of a winding 16 hours is necessary before reaching the Caribbean".

He specified that an air services agreement to this effect had been signed between Ghana and Guyana.

Black

President Akufo-Addo added that blacks from around the world would be judged by what was happening in Africa and badured that Ghana would continue to work diligently to strengthen ties between all blacks in the world.

Vacation

Some of the participants at the meeting lamented that they had celebrated March as a national holiday with African activities, but that holiday and activities had been interrupted.

They expressed the hope that with the visit of President Akufo-Addo, they would begin the celebration and be awarded the National Day.