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PRESS STATEMENT
February 23, 2012
AKUFO-ADDO TO DELIVER 2012 OPPENHEIMER LECTURE, AFTER
PRESIDENTS KAGAME AND JOHNSON-SIRLEAF
The 2012 Presidential Candidate of Ghana’s New Patriotic Party
(NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, will Wednesday, 29 February, deliver
the 2012 Oppenheimer Lecture, in London.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a
leading research authority on global security and political
developments, has been hosting the Oppenheimer Lecture series,
delivered by eminent African personalities, since 2006.
Nana Akufo-Addo’s lecture, which will be on the theme ‘The
future of democracy in Africa and the Arab Spring’, will be
chaired by Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief
Executive of the IISS and it will take place in the Lee Kuan
Yew Conference Room at Arundel House, London, UK.
The NPP leader follows other prominent leaders Liberian
President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf gave the Oppenheimer Lecture
in 2006 while Mr Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of
Rwanda delivered the last one before this, the 2010 edition.
Nana Akufo-Addo will leave Accra Monday evening to London. In
the UK, he will undertake other assignments, including
interactions with the Ghanaian community. He will be
accompanied by Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, MP for Kwadaso, and his
Press Secretary, Herbert Krapa.
......signed......
Herbert Krapa
Press Secretary
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