President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been decorated with the highest national award of Liberia, the Grand Order of the Most Venerable Order of the Knighthood of Pioneers.
The award was for his contribution towards the sustenance of lasting peace in Liberia and helping to set the country on the path to recovery.Â
President Akufo-Addo was decorated at a State Dinner and Investiture ceremony held in his honour by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Besides the national honour, he was enstooled as a chief by the Paramount Chiefs of Monrovia with the stool name Kandakai Gbogba, to wit “a good man who brings peaceâ€, at the ceremony.
He had earlier on been given the key to the city of Monrovia by Mayor Clara Doe.
Nana Akufo-Addo who was in the country for a two-day official visit as part of his tour of West African states commended President Johnson-Sirleaf for her efforts at fostering a spirit of national reconciliation amongst Liberians, and restoring law and order since she assumed office in 2006 after a long civil war which ravaged the country.
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