The Queen’s Baton on Monday, October 25, 2021safely landed in Accra, Ghana from Free Town, Sierra Leone.
Mr Alie Gibrill Koroma, a member of the Commonwealth Games Association of Sierra Leone brought the Queen’s Baton and he presented it to the President of the Commonwealth Games Association Ghana, Mr Ben Nunoo Mensah at the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport.
He commended Ghana for creating an exciting scene on the Queen’s Baton.
Mr Mensah said the Baton carries a message from the queen of England to all the 72 nations of the Commonwealth, and it is in preparation for the next Commonwealth Games to be hosted in Birmingham in 2022.
The Baton will be in Ghana for the next two days and would be held by the President, Nana Akufo-Addo and other dignitaries of the state as well as celebrities and distinguished sportsmen and women.
It will move to Tema and Kumasi where the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II will hold it with some of his subjects at Manhyia palace, then to Ntonso, where the Adinkra symbols originated, and Bonwere, known to be the origin of the popular Kente cloth.
At least 100 people will bear the Baton before it moves to Cameroon on October 28.
Present at the airport to welcome the Baton was Mr Malcolm Hood representing the British High Commission and members of the committee in charge of the Queen’s Baton in Ghana.
They include chairman Mr Fred Otu Lartey, Mr Isaac Duah, Mr Melvin Brown, Mr Abdul Hayye Yartey, Mrs Delphina Quaye, Mr Michael Ayeh and Miss Farida Idriss administrator at the Commonwealth Games Association Ghana.