{"id":318414,"date":"2017-05-11T19:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318414"},"modified":"2017-05-11T19:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:21:39","slug":"eugene-asante-ofosuhene-is-new-controller-and-accountant-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=318414","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Asante Ofosuhene is new Controller and Accountant General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has appointed Mr. Eugene Asante Ofosuhene as the Acting Controller and Accountant General.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Mr. Seidu Kotomah who was appointed by ex-President Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofosuhene\u2019s appointment forms part of a number of key appointments to the Finance Ministry announced on Thursday, May 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Finance Ministry said, \u201cMr. Ofosuhene comes to this position with a wealth of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a former Deputy Controller and Accountant General, Mr. Ofosuhene was responsible for management of the Government Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>He acted creditably on several occasions as the Controller and Accountant General in the absence of the substantive Controller.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Public Finance Expert and has consulted for the World Bank on the assignment, \u2018Strengthening the role of Public Private Partnerships in the Local Government Assemblies\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ofosuhene is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (U.K. &amp;amp; Ireland) F.C.C.A and Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He has a Master\u2019s degree in Business Administration (Finance option) from the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a graduate of the London School of Accountancy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Seidu Kotomah has since been reassigned to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has appointed Mr. Eugene Asante Ofosuhene as the Acting Controller and Accountant General. He replaces Mr. Seidu Kotomah who was appointed by ex-President Mahama. Mr. Ofosuhene\u2019s appointment forms part of a number of key appointments to the Finance Ministry announced on Thursday, May 11th, 2017. A statement from the Finance Ministry said, \u201cMr. [&hellip;]<\/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":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318414","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=318414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}