The President Nana Akufo Addo has sworn in Mrs Salma Frances Fanny Mancell-Egala as Ghana's ambassador to Turkey, despite calls by her late Husband's family to "reconsider her appointment."

Mrs Egala is been accused by the family of her late husband Dr Issah Egala,  of  peddling lies and conniving with the police to exhume the body of her late husband, a move it described as "sinister works" of Mrs Mrs Funny Mancell.

Her appointment has been met with rejection and marred with allegations by the family, who suspect her of foul play over her husband's death, describing her as unfit to represent the Government.

However the President, at the swearing in ceremony on Monday, claimed all his appointees has  "been carefully chosen," and  "well-deserved," tasking them to  help  turn around quickly the fortunes of the country.

"The twenty-two men and women, who have received their letters of credence this evening, have been carefully chosen to become our Ambassadors and High Commissioners", the President said.

"They have distinguished themselves in their various fields of endeavour – politics, medicine, law, academia, chieftaincy, military, business, social work – and in the public service of our country. They are eminently fit to represent Ghana in their respective places of accreditation, which have expressed satisfaction at their appointments. I congratulate each one of you warmly on your well-deserved appointment."

The Egala family at a press conference last week had described Fanny Mancell as a woman who "drained Issah of all his wealth and reduced him to a poor frustrated man," adding that she "travelled and left him alone in a bad state both physically and mentally, which finally culminated in his death."

According to Alhaji Iddi Egala, Mrs Fanny Mancell, who had left to  the United States when the death occurred,  ordered that no family member of the husband should step into the Airport Residential Area residence, where the couple lived,"because she was seeing faces she did not like."

He said they got the officials of Legon Anglican Church in Accra to conduct a burial service for their departed brother saying “at the Police Hospital Morgue, the body was conveyed with full police honours befitting a retired Commissioner of Police and the police hierarchy was fully represented.”

“Upon Fanny’s arrival to Ghana, her first point of call was the Airport Police Station to report that her husband was dead and buried in her absence,” adding “according to the police, she complained that she suspected foul play in the death.”

"We appeal to the President H E Nano Addo TO seriously reconsider her appointment to represent the Government and Ghana our motherland," the family told ghanaguardian.com

However the appeal by the Family seems to have fallen on deaf ears of the president,who on Monday swore in  Mrs Salma Frances Mancell-Egala, among a list of  22 Ghanaians, serving them with their letters of credence as ambassadors and high commissioners.

Mrs Salma Frances Fanny Mancell-Egala, who converted her late Husband from Islam to Christianity in 1998, will be serving as  Ghana's ambassador to Turkey,a country in which 99.8% of the population are identified as Muslim, a move for which President Akufo Addo has been chided.

By Fiifi Abdul Malik/ghanaguardian.com