This was confirmed to Citi News by a family member on Monday morning, who said a further statement will be released.

[contextly_sidebar id=”CeZCqM1je77QvVGLYfVps7tKcK6kpKCe”]Born on March 1, 1924, K.B. Asante was the Secretary to Ghana’s First President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and served under a number of Heads of States in Ghana.

He also served as the Principal Secretary at African Affairs Secretariat from 1960 to 1966.

He became Ghana’s Ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations Offices in Geneva, and the UN establishment in Vienna, and also the Ambassador to Australia from 1967-72.

He also served as the Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Economic Community from 1976-1978.

Life in politics

K.B. Asante retired from the Civil Service in 1978, to form the Social Democratic Front to contest the 1979 election where his party won three parliamentary seats in that election.

He was the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) administration in 1982, and later Secretary for Education and Culture from 1986 to 1990.

Education

K.B. Asante attended Achimota School where he later taught mathematics from 1945 to 1948, before proceeding to Durham University in Britain, where he obtained a BSc Mathematics in 1952.

He also became a member of the Institute of Statisticians in 1953, before again returning to Achimota College, where he continued teaching mathematics from 1953 to 1955.

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Comments like that put the country on the verge of “rot”, he asserted on the Citi Breakfast Show.

[contextly_sidebar id=”qPzSitbqxMyPOgWYeVhlgkm1t7ufRA0s”]Mr. Asante stated that, “no Ghanaian is more Ghanaian than another. We are all Ghanaians… all that the High Commissioner is saying is that, with all due respect, it doesn’t make sense. He is there for all Ghanaians.”

The diplomat, while addressing members of the Tertiary Students’ Confederacy Network  (TESCON) in the Ashanti Region over the weekend, said his first priority is to members of the party, and that if he had his own way, members of TESCON will be prioritized for various jobs.

[contextly_sidebar id=”WOwRPmSAZ1zF4NFSXGfccfB4EnzotbRS”]Mr. Boateng said he considers NPP members as more Ghanaian than others.

“…this government is doing its best to create job opportunities and me for instance, I told my people over there [that], it is because of NPP that I’m here, so the NPP man is my priority. I told them when NDC was in power it was Kwesi Ahwoi who was there, now we are in power, so Ayisi-Boateng is here with you. My topmost priority is the problems of an NPP person before any other Ghanaian, take it or leave it,” he said.

Ayisi Boateng can change

Although Mr. Ayisi Boateng’s comments have been met with outrage and calls for his sacking, the retired diplomat said there was still room for reform for the embattled South African High Commissioner.

“If I am in charge, I will move him from South Africa and perhaps send him to another place and warn him. If he doesn’t change, I will get rid of him.”

Training for envoys

Stopping short of calling this a second chance for the embattled envoy, he suggested that, Mr. Ayisi Boateng may have also lacked the required training leading to his comments.

“When I was appointed an envoy, I was then a schoolmaster in Achimota School, and I was sent to Turkey to learn. Ten of us were selected and we were all given that sort of training… since then, we are supposed to train them, but I don’t think we do, so part of the fault is the government or those who send them.”

“That is why I say he may not know so we should send him to another place and hopefully, he would learn. If we change all the High Commissioners and representatives for faux pas, we won’t have any… He deserves to learn. He has made his faux pas. He can go somewhere else for a time, and we will watch him and if he is sensible, he will learn.”

No remorse

Despite the widespread condemnation, there has been no remorse from Mr. Ayisi Boateng, who insisted that there was nothing wrong with putting his party people first.

Speaking on Kumasi-based Abusua FM on Tuesday, he said: “I didn’t speak evil at all… When you have a large family but you first make your wife and children eat first before others, what is wrong with that? I am not divisive. E.T Mensah is my senior colleague, when he came to South Africa, find out what I did for him. I have not said anything bad, I stand by my words.”

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The Human Rights Court, presided over by Justice Essel Mensah, on July 11 ordered the then GHAMRO board to step aside.

The court’s ruling followed an action by legendary musician Nana Kwame Ampadu and ninety nine (99) others who accused Carlos Sakyi, then chairman of GHAMRO, of embezzling funds collected on behalf of music rights owners in Ghana.

The new board has a six (6) month mandate, after which a substantive board would be appointed.

Below is a statement on the new development.

STATEMENT

Following the Order of an Accra High Court in the matter of NANA KWAME AMPADU and 99 Others vrs GHANA MUSIC RIGHTS ORGANIZATION & 12 Others, a five (5) – Member Board of Receiver-Managers was appointed to run the affairs of GHAMRO for six (6) months.

The Board is constituted by:

1. Nana Aboagye Da Costa – Musician/Right Owner
2. Kwame Nsiah-Apau – Musician/Right Owner
3. Enoch Agyepong – Music Publisher
4. Ms Dorothy Habadah – State Attorney/Representative of the Copyright Office
5. Kow Sessah Acquaye – State Attorney/ Representative from the Attorney General’s Department

After its initial meeting on Tuesday the 29^th of July, 2014, Nana Aboagye Da Costa was elected Chairman, Ms. Dorothy Habadah as Secretary and Kwame Nsiah-Appau (Okyeame Kwame) as the Public Relation Officer with the rest as members.

Further details of the first meeting of the Receiver-Managers and other related matters will be made public in an August Press Conference.

Thank you.

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Kwame Nsiah-Appau

(P.R.O.)

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