Mahama to inaugurate transition team Sunday

The Transition Team will be inaugurated by President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday.

A statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah said the team would be co-chaired by President Mahama and the President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Persons appointed by President Mahama on the team are the Chief of Staff, Mr Julius Debrah: Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah Opong; Minister of Finance, Mr Seth E. Terkper, Minister of the Interior, Mr Prosper Bani; Minister of Defence, Dr. Benjamin Kunbour; Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Ms Hanna S. Tetteh, and the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Alhaji Collins Dauda.

Those representing the President-elect are former Finance Minister in the Kufour administration, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo; Ms Frema Osei Opare, Head of the Staff of Office of the President-elect; Ms Gloria Akuffo, member responsible for Legal Affairs; Mr Ken Ofori- Atta, member responsible for Finance; Mr Ambrose Dery, member responsible for the Interior; Mr Dominic Nitiwul, member responsible for Defence; Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, member responsible for Foreign Affairs ; Hajia Alima Mahama, member responsible for Local Government, and Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, member responsible for National Security.

The statement mentioned the statutory members of the Transition Team as the head of the Civil Service, head of the Local Government Service, Secretary to the Cabinet, and the National Security Coordinator.