Akufo Addo Swears In Ayorkor Botchwey In Ethiopia

President Nana Akufo-Addo has sworn in Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration at Ghana’s embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The former deputy Foreign Affairs Minister during the erstwhile Kufour administration was not available to be sworn in together with his twelve other colleagues who were sworn in at the Flagstaff House on Friday night. She is currently on international assignment attending the AU Summit.

President Akufo Addo at the swearing in of the other ministers said ” the 13th minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has already entered into her functions. She is in Addis  Ababa attending the Foreign Ministers meeting in preparation for the AU summit of 29th to 31st of January, 2017. I will swear her in at Ghana’s Embassy in Adis Ababa on Saturday evening.”