It is working through the newly created Ministry for Special Development Initiatives led by Mavis Hawa Koomson and the One Village One Dam irrigation programme co-ordinated by Local Development Minister Alima Mahama with a focus on the poorer northern regions...
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Ministerial casualties included Stephen Asamoah-Boateng (Information and National Orientation); Samuel Owusu-Agyei (Public Sector Reform); Boniface Abubakar Saddique (Water Resources Works and Housing) who lost his Salaga seat in the Northern region); Hajia Alima Mahama (Women and Children’s Affairs) who lost in Nalerigu; former Energy Ministers Joseph Kofi Adda (Navrongo) and Aaron Mike Oquaye (Dome in Accra); and Deputy Health Minister Gladys Norley Ashitey who narrowly won the hotly-contested Ledzokuku seat in the capital in 2004...
Hajia Alima Mahama Minister for Women and Children's Affairs would be a change from the NPP's usual choice of a male northern Muslim vice-presidential candidate...
Stephen Asamoah-Boateng (Deputy Information) and Anthony Akoto-Osei (Deputy Finance and Economic Planning) are tipped for promotion alongside Hajia Alima Mahama (Deputy Local Government and Rural Development) and George Djan-Baffour Director General of the National Development Planning Commission...
