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GHANA-USA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE(GUSACC)

THE PATRIOTIC CHARGE FROM HON. HAWA YAKUBU

Dr. George Ossei Assibey-Mensah

I hope that patriotic Ghanaians in the Diaspora have not forgotten January 7, 2001. That was when Mr. J. A. Kufuor, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), was officially sworn in as President of Ghana. In his diligent and enthusiastic efforts to combat; if not eradicate, corruption in Ghana, he boldly declared that he was determined to institutionalized a policy of zero tolerance of corruption. Operating within the true tenets of that policy, as well as the need Ghanaians far and wide, to reconci1e so as to be physically and spiritually involved in the onerous tasks of socio-economic rebuilding and economic growth ahead, he appointed knowledgeable and accomplished Ghanaians to assist with his programs to promote tourism among others. The unanimous choice for the tourism portfolio was none other than Madam Hawa Yakubu, the dynamic M.P. for the Bawku-Central Constituency of the Upper-East Region. The lady has a fine record of achievement, not exc1uding her diplomatic ability to reconcile disputants

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