{"id":288407,"date":"2017-01-26T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288407"},"modified":"2017-01-26T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T15:06:29","slug":"akufo-addo-inaugurates-30-member-ghana60-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/akufo-addo-inaugurates-30-member-ghana60-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo inaugurates 30-member Ghana@60 committee"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Akufo-Addo has launched a 30-member committee to plan for the country\u2019s 60th-anniversary celebrations scheduled to take place in March.<\/p>\n
The committee, chaired by Ken Amankwah, includes representatives from the various security agencies, some ministries of state and the Presidency.<\/p>\n
Ghana will on 6th<\/sup> March 2017, \u00a0celebrate its Diamond Jubilee after gaining independence from Britain in 1957.<\/p>\n Below is the list of members serving on the committee;<\/strong><\/p>\n Group B Institutional Representation<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Ghana at 50 committee’<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n It emerged after the celebration that there was a\u00a0gross misappropriation of funds by the committee that operated as a\u00a0secretariat.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana\n
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