GCAC HONOURS 14 PEOPLE TO THE GNAHAF FELLOWSHIP AND INITIATES NEW AWARDS

With the quest to pursue an innovative agenda in the new Ghana, using award as a new paradigm for national development, the Ghana Country Award Council, GCAC committed to championing national excellence has once again, admitted fifteen (15) new personalities to the Ghana National Honorary Awards of Fame, GNAHAF. This is in accordance with the council's ethos to admit and award fellowship status to distinguished Ghanaian icons and achievers to enable them earn a place in the awards hall of fame. This, the GCAC believe would secure an everlasting platform for honouring our national heroes and to enable others to emulate these landmarks for both personal and nation building.

It is a tradition of GNAHAF to offer all Presidents of Ghana automatic fellowship status. In this light, eight (8) former Heads of State of Ghana have been awarded Fellowship status. They are Lt. Gen. Joseph Ankrah, Lt. Gen Akwesi Afrifa, Dr. K.A. Busia, Gen. I.K Achempong, Gen. F.W.K Akufo, Dr. Hilla Liman and FLT. Jerry John Rawlings. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Mr. Edward Akufo Addo and President John Agyekum Kufuor have already been awarded GNAHAF fellowship status.

Other distinguished Ghanaian icons and achievers also admitted include, Associate Professor Akua Kuenyehia, the First Vice President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague, (For the advancement of women empowerment, Local and International law and justice towards service to humanity). Former First lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (For the emancipation of women at every level of development to enable them contribute towards the socio-economic and political progress of the country). Former First lady, Fathia Nkrumah (For exhibiting the spirit of Ghanaism as an Egyptian; died in her home country and was buried in a foreign country “Ghana” beside her husband whom she helped to spearhead the emancipation of the African continent).

The rest are Nana Akuoku Sarpong (For his noble excellence in statesmanship, legal, environment and promotion of culture for accelerated national development), Mrs. Beatrice Lokko (For outstanding bravery in promoting educational excellence and the first ever woman to head a boys institution “Accra Academy” in Ghana and Africa at large), the late Honourable Hawa Yakubu (A person among few Ghanaian Women who excelled in the field of politics and leadership) and the late Mrs. Esther Ocloo (for her exceptional involvement in the nation's industrial development).

However, two new personality and an independent awards have been instituted. These are “The Jerry John Rawlings African Democracy Implementation Excellence Awards, Akua Kuenyehia National Women Achievers Awards and National Anti - Corruption Awareness Creation Initiative Excellence Awards.” Personality awards are the greatest honours in GNAHAF, bestowed on individuals who have been awarded Fellowship Status in the Ghana National Honorary Awards of Fame.

GGAC expresses its felicitation to these distinguished personalities who have contributed immensely towards national development and calls on Ghanaians to be vigilant in the fight against corruption in Ghana.

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UNDER COUNTRY DIRECTOR CECIL NII OBODAI WENTUM
DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
EXECUTIVE OFFICE / GHANA COUNTRY AWARD COUNCIL