Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has cancelled his trip to Ghana.<\/p>\n
The 92-year old African leader was expected to deliver a presidential lecture at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra, on the occasion of the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize.<\/p>\n
Organizers of the event, Millennium Excellence Foundation, say the cancellation is due to reasons beyond their control.<\/p>\n
But sources at the Zimbabwean Embassy in Ghana, who want to remain anonymous, have told Citi News<\/strong> the trip was cancelled due to domestic political issues in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n Ghanaians were looking forward to the visit of the controversial leader, who has ruled for nearly three decades. This would have been the African leader’s most recent visit to Ghana.<\/p>\n There had been huge billboards in the national capital, Accra, advertising his visit\u00a0by the event organizers.<\/p>\n The African leader, between 1955 and 1958, stayed in Ghana where he taught as a \u00a0Senior High School teacher, and eventually married a Ghanaian woman who later died.<\/p>\n Mr. Mugabe was inspired by the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President.<\/p>\n Despite Mr. Mugabe\u2019s absence, the event will go ahead as planned but without the presidential lecture.<\/p>\n At the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize slated for Saturday, August 20, nine persons including three Ghanaians; Dr Kwabena Dufuor, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong and Nana Kwame Bediako, are expected to be conferred with LAAP prize.<\/p>\n Other personalities to be awarded, include Tokyo Sexwale (South Africa), Mrs. Tabitha Karanja (Kenya), Hanson Sindowe (Zambia), Emmanuel Adebayor (Togo), Femi Otedola (Nigeria), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia).<\/p>\n The grand durbar for the event in Kumasi on the 21st of August, has also been postponed.
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\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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