President appoints Debrah-Karikari Secretary to Cabinet

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Mrs Mercy Yvonne Debrah-Karikari, a career diplomat, as Secretary to the Cabinet.

According to a statement issued by the Presidency on Thursday in Accra, her appointment takes retrospective effective February 14, 2017. She becomes the first woman in Ghana’s history to hold this position.

Mrs. Debrah-Karikari was until her appointment, Ghana’s High Commissioner to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and other countries in the Pacific region.

Source: GNA