IMANI director, Franklin Cudjoe, former deputy head of the FDB, Mr. Kwamina Van-Ess and Mr. Andrew Akolaa, Marketing Manager of Kasapreko distilleries formally presented the draft alcohol policy to Hon. Dr. Sipa-Adjah Yankey, Ghana’s new Health Minister. Minister promised to study the draft and said hopefully, there would be no need to re-invent the wheel.

Franklin later joined the Minister of health and his Ghanaian delegation at a luncheon on M-Health projects organized by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and the United States lobby agency, the Whitaker Group in Geneva, Switzerland.

Franklin mentioned the draft Alcohol Policy to Dr. Seth Opuni, the new CEO of Ghana’s Food and Drugs Board, who was hearing about the policy for the first time. Franklin attended the World Health Assembly and spoke on fighting counterfeit medicines.