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President Akufo Addo has described former finance minster Kwesi Botchway as an astute statesman and a Servant who discharged his duties with dignity.
The president eulogized the late finance minister when his family came to formerly inform him about his demise at the seat of government, the jubilee house.
He posted the tribute on his official Facebook page on Monday, November 21.
“The death of my good friend, Dr. Kwesi Botchway, is a very sad development. My contemporary, in the mid-1960s, at the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Botchway was a longstanding public servant, who discharged his duties thoughtfully and with dignity, and became Ghana’s longest-serving Minister for Finance and Economic Planning.
Professor Botchwey died on Saturday,November 19 at thw Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
He had been on admission for a short illness.
Prof Botchwey served under late Jerry John Rawlings as the Secretary for Finance in the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) regime and then as Minister of Finance in the first NDC government.
He was replaced by Dr Kwame Pepra in 1995.
By Enock Baffoe/uniquenewsgh.com
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