All is set for the Queen's Baton Relay in Ghana next week, Frederick Lartey Otu, Chairman of the Planning Committee, has said.
The Queen's Baton Relay started on October 7, from the Queen of England and will go through Cyprus, Malta, Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone and it is expected to arrive in Ghana on October 25.
A short ceremony is expected to greet its arrival at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
Thereafter, the Queen's Baton Relay, which will be brought by an official from Sierra Leone, will be sent to the Jubilee House, where President Akufo-Addo will receive it.
On the same day, it will move through the Libration Circle, Opeibea House, Stanbic Heights, Airport bypass Road, Aviation, EL-Wak, Tema Valco Round About, the Harbour, among other places.
Day two (October 27) will see it move to Kumasi at the Manhyia Palace. It will be received by Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and later moved to the Rattray Park, Bonwire Tourist Center, Adinkra Village at Ntonsu.
About 100 dignitaries and people at high places are expected to receive it during the two-day visit to Ghana.
An official from Ghana will send it to Cameroun, its next destination.
Other members of the Queen’s Baton Relay Planning Committee are Isaac Aboagye Duah; President of the Ghana Tennis Federation; Michael Ntow Ayeh, Director of the Physical Education and Sports: Ghana Education Service; Mohammed Mahadi, President of the Ghana Fencing Federation; Mervin Brown, President of the Ghana Karate-Do Federation.
Others are Delphina Quaye, president of the Ghana Swimming Federation; Abdul Hayye Yartey, President of the Ghana Body Building and Fitness Federation and Albert Frimpong of the Ghana Baseball/Softball Federation.
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