President Mahama Appoints New Ministers 
for Youth & Sports, and Agriculture 
 
President John Mahama has reassigned 
Information Minister, Mahama Ayariga (MP), to the Ministry of Youth and 
Sports. He replaces Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah who moves to the Presidency as a 
Minister of State. 
 
The President, as part of ongoing changes in his administration, has also 
designated Fifi Fiavi Kwetey (MP), a Minister of State at the Presidency as 
Minister for Food and Agriculture. 
 
Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Joseph Yammin moves to the Ashanti 
Region to take over from Joseph Alexander Ackon who has been reassigned 
to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection as the second 
Deputy. 
 
Deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Vincent Oppong 
Asamoah, will be moving to the Ministry of Youth and Sports as Deputy Minister.

This was contained in a Statement issued by the office of the president in Accra, on June 28, 2014  and copied to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).




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