His backers include party heavyweights such as Ato and Kwamena Ahwoi ex-Communications Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings who has advised party members to 'vote for people who stuck to the party through thick and thin'...
Education Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and his deputy Mohamed ibn Chambas took the brunt of public anger; Spio-Garbrah was later given additional responsibility for Mines and Energy...
Though Ohene Kena must have cleared that statement with President Jerry Rawlings he was unceremoniously sacked on 13 October and replaced by Ekwow Spio-Garbrah a close political ally of First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings: at the same time the government said it hadn't made a decision on Lonmin's bid - to the surprise of Lonmin Chairman Sir John Craven...
Close to this group is Ekwow Spio-Garbrah who on 10 November was reshuffled from Communications to the Education portfolio to cope with mounting student unrest and widespread dissatisfaction at standards in schools...
In his sessional address to parliament last month Rawlings (advised by his urbane Communications Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah) focused on the fightback against official graft...
Communications Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah organised an all-party economic summit to lay the groundwork for the reintroduction of VAT...
Super security super communicationsFormer Information Minister Kofi Totobi Kwakyi's job was subsumed in the new super-ministry of Communications now run by former Ambassador to the USA Ekwow Spio-Garbrah...
