President Mahama returns from UK, G8 Summit

President John Dramani Mahama on Monday arrived home from the United Kingdom UK where he participated in the G8 Summit.

He was met on arrival by Vice-President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur, Ministers of State, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Vice Admiral Mathew Quashie, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Alhassan, and other senior government officials.

While in the UK, President Mahama and the British Prime Minister David Cameron held bilateral talks, during which Mr Cameron commended Ghana for her economic growth and democratic credentials.

For his part, President Mahama said Ghana was in a transit from a lower middle-income country to a full middle-income status, and the country needed stronger partnership in her movement to a full middle-income status.

At G8 Summit plenary session in London, last Saturday, President Mahama gave an assurance that his administration was implementing measures to prevent financial leakages in the oil and gas and the general extractive industry.

President Mahama also addressed the Ghanaian community in London, where he gave the assurance that the Government of Ghana would continue to pursue measures that would enhance the socio-economic development of the country.