Meanwhile Campaign Director Peter Mac Manu Akufo-Addo and his cousin Ken Ofori-Atta had recruited Joe Anokye a Ghanaian information technology expert who had worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States for the past two decades...
Also important on economic policy will be the founder of Databank Ken Ofori-Atta and his colleague Yofi Grant who will bring extensive international financial experience to the team...
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At first the middle classes and professionals were in the front line of the protests: for instance Ken Ofori-Atta and Yoofi Grant of the Databank brokerage; Ace Kojo Ankomah a lawyer; Kofi Bentil Vice-President of the IMANI-Ghana think-tank who was briefly arrested; Dr Esi Ansah a lecturer at the private Ashesi University; publisher Comfort Ocran of Legacy and Legacy; George Andah the former marketing officer at the mobile phone group MTN; and Kofi Kapito Chief Executive Officer of the Consumer Protection Agency...
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These last four have all written books regarded by Akufo-Addo's inner circle (headed by financier Ken Ofori-Atta) as disloyally critical of the party's election strategy...
Akufo-Addo's backers include big entrepreneurs like his cousin Ken Ofori-Atta and his campaign manager Nich Adi-Dako...
With entrepreneur Ken Ofori-Atta and lawyer Ekow Awoonor Bucknor formed the 'gang of three' who in 1998 narrowly failed to oust Ashanti Goldfields Company boss Sam Esson Jonah after a much-publicised spat with Rawlings and a dramatic fall in AGC's share price...