Ghana at 60 celebration Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/ghana-at-60-celebration/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:06:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-CITI-973-FM-32x32.jpg Ghana at 60 celebration Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/ghana-at-60-celebration/ 32 32 Akufo-Addo inaugurates 30-member Ghana@60 committee https://citifmonline.com/2017/01/akufo-addo-inaugurates-30-member-ghana60-committee/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:06:29 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=288407 President Akufo-Addo has launched a 30-member committee to plan for the country’s 60th-anniversary celebrations scheduled to take place in March. The committee, chaired by Ken Amankwah, includes representatives from the various security agencies, some ministries of state and the Presidency. Ghana will on 6th March 2017,  celebrate its Diamond Jubilee after gaining independence from Britain […]

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]]> President Akufo-Addo has launched a 30-member committee to plan for the country’s 60th-anniversary celebrations scheduled to take place in March.

The committee, chaired by Ken Amankwah, includes representatives from the various security agencies, some ministries of state and the Presidency.

Ghana will on 6th March 2017,  celebrate its Diamond Jubilee after gaining independence from Britain in 1957.

Below is the list of members serving on the committee;

  1. Ken Amankwah (Chairman)
  2. Samuel A. Jinapor (Vice Chairman)
  3. Eugene Arhin (Secretary)
  4. Duke Ofori-Atta
  5. Lord Commey
  6. Sam Ellis
  7. Edmond Boateng
  8. Michael Ofori-Atta
  9. Ama Serwaa Nyarko
  10. Jefferson Sackey
  11. Kwaku Danso Misa (Communication Working Group)
  12. Abyna Ansah Adjei (Communication Working Group)
  13. Representative from the Vice President’s Office
  14. Director of State Protocol
  15. Chief of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  16. Chief Director at the Presidency
  17. Director Finance and Administration at the Presidency
  18. Director Budget at the Presidency
  19. Representative from State Protocol

Group B Institutional Representation

  1. Representative from the Ghana Armed Forces
  2. Representative from National Security
  3. Representative from the Ghana Police Services
  4. Representative from the Ghana Prison Services
  5. Representative from the Ghana Revenue Authority
  6. Representative from the Ghana National Fire Services
  7. Representative from the Ghana Education Services
  8. Representative from Ministry of Education
  9. Representative from Ministry of Information
  10. Representative from Ministry of Tourism and Creative Arts
  11. Representative from Ghana Immigration Services

‘Ghana at 50 committee’

The last time a similar committee was inaugurated was in 2007 by President John Agyekum Kufour, to organize the celebration of Ghana’s 50th anniversary.

It emerged after the celebration that there was a gross misappropriation of funds by the committee that operated as a secretariat.

Dr. Wereko-Brobbey and Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani, Chairman of the National Planning Committee for Ghana@50 in August 2010, were discharged by an Accra Fast Track High Court of charges of willfully causing financial loss to the State.

They were accused of financial malfeasance and recommended for prosecution by a 3-member committee set up by the then President John Atta-Mills to investigate the celebrations.

They pleaded not guilty and were subsequently discharged by a Court of Appeal on the grounds that the charges leveled against them were instituted in breach of their fundamental human rights.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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