{"id":295393,"date":"2017-02-17T23:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T23:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295393"},"modified":"2017-02-17T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T23:09:06","slug":"iain-walker-appointed-new-british-high-commissioner-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=295393","title":{"rendered":"Iain Walker appointed new British High Commissioner to Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Foreign Office of the UK has announced the appointment of Iain Walker as Her Majesty\u2019s British High Commissioner to Ghana.<\/p>\n

Iain Walker will replace Jon Benjamin, a man whose tenure in Ghana as a diplomat has been deemed\u00a0controversial due to some of his utterances and actions.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Office made the announcement on its official Twitter handle on Friday February 17, 2017.<\/p>\n

\"capture\"Mr. Walker expressed his delight about the appointment. In a twitter post, he said he would be starting his official diplomatic work in Ghana in August 2017.<\/p>\n

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Iain Walker has worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the past 6 years, spending four of those years as Director of the Board.<\/p>\n

As a law graduate from the University of Dundee, his experience is wide-ranging, including a consulting role for PwC, a two year stint in the UK Prime Minister\u2019s Delivery Unit as a policy lead in transformational government and a four year role at EY (formerly Ernst & Young \u2013 one of the \u2018Big Four\u2019 accounting firms).<\/p>\n

Ghana and the U.K. maintained relationship ties and remained commonwealth members after independence. But many Ghanaians are unhappy about what they describe as unequal relationship even after independence.<\/p>\n

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\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Foreign Office of the UK has announced the appointment of Iain Walker as Her Majesty\u2019s British High Commissioner to Ghana. Iain Walker will replace Jon Benjamin, a man whose tenure in Ghana as a diplomat has been deemed\u00a0controversial due to some of his utterances and actions. The Foreign Office made the announcement on its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,11],"tags":[4210,42,3,1822,4211,798],"class_list":["post-295393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-top-stories","tag-british","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-high-commissioner","tag-lain-walker","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}