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By Edmund Smith-Asante Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, Mr Alan Kyerematen and Ms Hanna Tetteh Three former Trade Ministers — Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, Mr Alan Kyerematen and Ms Hanna Tetteh — yesterday gave recommendations that they said could reverse the country’s continued trade deficit.

By Edmund Smith-Asante The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has challenged commercial banks in the country to accept the risk to do export financing. “You are not doing enough – the Ghanaian financial institutions,” he said, adding that the banks were not bold and courageous enough to do export financing.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, PARLIAMENT HOUSE Mrs Mona Helen Quartey at the Vetting The President’s nominee for the Deputy Minister of Finance portfolio, Mrs Mona Helen Kabuki Quartey, last Friday showed that she meant business when she renounced her United States citizenship so as to take up the appointment.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, PARLIAMENT HOUSE A former Deputy Chief of Staff during President John Evans Atta Mills’s tenure (2009-2013), Mr Alexander Percival Segbefia, has stressed that he did not apply for British citizenship at any time during his sojourn in the UK, although he could have done that if he so wished.

By Edmund Smith-Asante, PARLIAMENT HOUSE Members of Parliament (MPs) have raised an issue about their exclusion from a list of state officials who will receive courtesies from Ghana’s High Commission in the UK, should they travel there on official duties.