General News of Friday, 28 June 2019

Source: classfmonline.com

Amissah-Arthur’s one-year anniversary lecture today

Former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur Former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur

A lecture to mark the first death anniversary of former Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur will be held at the Economics Department of the University of Ghana, Legon on Friday, 28 June 2019.

The lecture is part of several activities put together to mark the anniversary.

Mr Amissah-Arthur was a senior lecturer at the Economics Department of the University of Ghana before becoming Vice-President under the John Mahama administration from 2012 to 2016.

He died on 29 June 2018 while on a morning workout at a Burma Camp gym in Accra.

The lecture will be delivered by a former senior governor of the central bank of Nigeria, Professor Charles Fumidor with the UN’s Representative to the Sahel and West Africa, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas as Chairman.

Some donations will also to be made in the name of the late Vice-President to the Moree Hospital and Moree Senior High School in the Central Region.

The anniversary will be climaxed at the Calvary Methodist Church in Accra with a remembrance service on Saturday, 29 June.