Nana Addo Reacts To Kwesi Botchwey’s Death

Nana Addo Reacts To Kwesi Botchwey’s Death

Nana Addo Writes;

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.

Nana Addo Reacts To Kwesi Botchwey’s Death

The thoughts and sympathies of my wife, Rebecca, the First Lady, and I are with his partner, children, and family. I extend my deepest condolences to them, and also to the National Democratic Congress, of which he was a prominent and much-respected member. Ghana has lost a fine gentleman and exceptional public servant.

May his soul rest in perfect peace in the Bosom of the Almighty until the Last Day of the Resurrection when we shall all meet again. Amen!

Nana Addo Reacts To Kwesi Botchwey’s Death

Kwesi reportedly died, on November 19, 2022, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, where he was seeking medical care.

Professor Botchwey is said to have been receiving medical attention at the hospital in the last few days.

According to some sources, the erstwhile NDC appointee died on Saturday, November 19, 2022, after a short illness.

WHO IS KWESI BOTCHWEY

Kwesi Botchwey (13 September 1944 – 19 November 2022) was a Ghanaian former government official and Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.

Dr. Botchwey was Minister for Finance and Economic Planning from 1982 to 1995. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings to assist in stabilizing Ghana’s collapsed economy.

He received his secondary school education at the Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School in Ghana. Botchwey holds an LL.B. from the University of Ghana, an LL.M from Yale Law School, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School. He taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and the University of Ghana.