By: Bright Suzy Salitsi
Contrary to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s earlier directive to make the finance minister, Hon. Ken Ofori Atta caretaker for Minister of Trade and Industry, the president in a release on Friday, January 13, 2023, tasked the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor, to assume responsibility for the Trade and Industry ministry, effective Monday, January 16, 2023, pending a substantive replacement for the outgoing minister, Hon. Alan John Kwadwo Kyeremanten.
This follows the resignation of Hon. Kyeremanten, as the minister for Trade and Industry to contest the NPP flagbearership.
Read full statement below.
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