President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named Elizabeth Afoley Quaye as the Minister nominated for Fisheries and Aquaculture .<\/p>\n
Madam Quaye who is the Member of Parliament for Krowor in the Greater Accra region has worked at the Ministry of Agriculture as a civil servant for about two decades.<\/p>\n
Announcing the third batch of ministerial nominees at the Flagstaff House, President Akufo-Addo described Madam Quaye as a civil servant who understands issues pertaining to her portfolio.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is a first time Member of Parliament, she is going to be a minister, but her background, 20 years in the Ministry of Agriculture. In fact this was her schedule , because her schedule was a civil servant.\u00a0 But I believe her exposure, her knowledge of the issues in the industry are second to none in our country,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you speak to her you will know, and very soon the world will know it in the way she conducts herself in the Ministry. She comes from a fishing community, she is a Member of Parliament for a fishing community and I think she is very very idly positioned to be an advocate for that community for that industry as well as a policy maker to make sure that the decline that we have seen in the income of fisher folks, that decline is arrested,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo charged her to help solve important issues that affect marine and aquaculture development.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an industry that affects about two million people in Ghana and I do not have to underline or overemphasize\u00a0 its \u00a0importance in the economy of our country .There are important matters that now confront all of us .<\/p>\n
\u201cThe depletion of our marine stocks. Methods of fishing . The apparent decline in artisanal fishing all these are very important issues not only for the community involved in fishing but the nation at large\u201d.<\/p>\n
Madam Quaye attended University of Ghana, Legon.<\/p>\n
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By: Lawrence Segbefia\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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