In U.S. history, the two most
notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much
of the role
of the welfare
state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its
citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church
of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety
of services and economic supports for members
of the Mormon community.
Among the
notable government officials on the dais with the president were the Minister
of Communications, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the Head
of the
Citizens» Complaints Unit and parliamentary candidate
of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak as well as the Member
of Parliament for Builsa South and Minister
of State at the Presidency, Alhassan Azong.