Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey

A team from the Economic Community of West African States led by Ghanaian foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has been in Abidjan this week on self-proclaimed 'preventive diplomacy'...

They are Ken Ofori-Atta Finance; Gloria Akuffo Attorney General; Alan Kyerematen Trade and Industry; Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey Foreign Affairs; and Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko Energy...

Other key ministerial appointments in the offing include another veteran of Kufuor's team Shirley Botchwey at Foreign Affairs and Dominic Nitiwul at Defence...

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who is handling Foreign Affairs for the NPP transition team is also a frontrunner for foreign minister...

Frontrunners include Cecilia Abena Dapaah Chairperson of the Board of the profitable state-owned Cocoa Processing Company and personal aide to the President; Frema Akosua Osei-Opare member of parliament for Kufuor's home area; Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey who easily won Weija in Greater Accra...