GOC Hosts Queen's Baton Relay

Ahead of the 2010 XIX Commonwealth Games, slated for New Delhi in India, the re-instated Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has hosted the Queen's Baton. The Queen's Baton Relay which arrived in the country yesterday from Gambia in the company of KS Banshtu was to whip up enthusiasm among the Ghanaian sporting populace.

Yesterday, after the press conference at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra, the President of the GOC, Mr. BT Baba, revealed the program line-up for the three-day visit of the Baton.

The GOC and the team that brought the Baton, after a photo opportunity with the Baton yesterday, called on the UK, Australia, and India High commissions with the Baton.

Yesterday, the visitors took the Baton, which contains the Queen's message, to Metro TV, TV 3, GTV, New Times Corporation, TV Africa, and later in the day to Graphic Communications Group Limited.

It would wrap up the tour with a visit to the Central Region, Cape Coast, where they would call on the Paramount Chief, Osabarima Kwesi Atta, as well as visit the Kakum Park, the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles.

The Baton tour began begun in the UK on October 29, and toured some European countries, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and would hit Nigeria, from Ghana, then through Cameroon to Kenya, Uganda, Seychelles and South Africa.