Selasi Kwawu, a student of the Takoradi Polytechnic was on Saturday crowned Miss Ghana 2001 at the grand finale of this year’s Club Pleasure Miss Ghana Beauty Pagent heat at Accra.

The new beauty queen whose coronation did not raise any eyebrows, unlike previous competitions, is pursuing Fashion Designing and Modeling at the Higher National Diploma (HND) level.

This year’s event attracted 19 instead of the usual 20, contestants and, according to sources close to the organizers, Media Whizz Kids Limited, the two original representatives from the Northern Region failed to make it to the ultimate fiesta because one had travel abroad for further studies, while the other was later withdrawn due to her questionable citizenship.

The second runner-up at the Northern Regional event, Benedicta Otu was therefore invited to represent the region.

For her prize, Selasi drove home a brand new Volkswagen Polo Classic saloon car, a ticket to the Miss World Pagent, ?3 million, and a monthly allowance lasting one year.

Twenty-year-old student, Ama Solomon, a representative of the Central Region emerged the first runner-up and took home a double-door refrigerator, a set of furniture, ?2 million for career enhancement, and a desktop computer.

Stephanie Abla Walkins-Fia, 21, a Travel and Tourism student, was the second runner-up and she received a 20-inch television set, a set of furniture, ?2 million for career enhancement, and a desktop computer as her prize.