New Envoys Appointed

Top members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), university lecturers and lawyers have been named as ambassadors, a senior government official said on Thursday.

Mr Kwabena Agyepong, Deputy Government Spokesman, told reporters in Accra that President John Agyekum Kufuor named the envoys in consultation with the Council of State.

He did not say which countries they have been accredited to.
They are Mr Samuel Arthur Odoi-Sykes, a lawyer and Chairman of the NPP, Mr Roland Issifu Alhassan, a Lawyer and a leading Member Of NPP, Professor Albert Owusu Sarpong, Dean of the Social Sciences Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Mr Timothy Enyo Kwaku Amesimeku, a Lawyer.

The rest are Dr Baffour Adjei Bawah, a Development Consultant and Chairman of the United Kingdom Branch of the NPP, Mr Tahir Abdul EL Razak Muhyiddin Hassan, a University lecturer, Mr Emmanuel Kwadwo Adu, a representative of Scancem International, Major-General Francis Yahaya Mahama (rtd) and Mr Clarus Kobina Sakyi, a career diplomat.
Meanwhile, the President has appointed Nana Bonsu Wiafe Ababio as Managing Director of Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company.
He has also named Mr Haruna Esseku as Chairman of the reconstituted nine-member board of the company.
Other members are Nana Ababio, Paa Kwesi Yankey, a Business Executive, Mr Yaw Agyeman-Duah, Managing Director of Ghana Oil Company, Mr Akwasi
Kyeremanteng, Member of Parliament for Sekyere West, Mr S. O Darkoh, M.P for Ga North, Mr Johnson Aboagye, a Business Executive, Ms Serwaah Derkyi, an Educationist, and Mr Benjamin Baah, a Chartered Accountant.