Kwamena Ahwoi

Kwamena Ahwoi
Minister for Planning and Regional Economic Co-operation and Integration
In office 1997 – Jan 2001
President	Jerry Rawlings
Preceded by	New Ministry
Succeeded by	Kofi Konadu Apraku
22nd Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ghana)
In office 1997–1997
President	Jerry Rawlings
Preceded by	Obed Asamoah
Succeeded by	Victor Gbeho
Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
In office 1993–1997
President	Jerry Rawlings
Preceded by	William Yeboah
Succeeded by	Cecilia Johnson
Personal details
Born	1951 Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian
Political party	National Democratic Congress
Relations	Kwesi Ahwoi, Ato Ahwoi
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Profession	Academic, Lawyer

Kwamena Ahwoi (born 1951) is a politician in Ghana who served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development from 1990 to 2001 in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, during the reign of Jerry Rawlings. He also briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1997, and was acting minister in that department during much of the 1990s. In 2005, he resigned as director of research for the NDC.^[1]

Background

Kwamina Ahwoi studied Law on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.^[2] His career in the NDC government has allowed him various positions. In the mid-1980s, he served as director of the Office of Revenue Commissioners, Investigations and Tribunals, and was the acting secretary for Foreign Affairs. by 1990, he was Secretary for Local Government and Rural Development. During his term in the office of foreign affairs, he attempted to unify the NDC with the National Reform Party in 1999, and he sent troops to join the Nigerian-led ECOMOG in quelling the Sierra Leone Civil War after a coup in 1997. After the NDC lost in the election of 2000, Ahwoi was critical of the new New Patriotic Party government, and worked to reduce factionalism in the NDC.

He is a now a lecturer at the Greenhill Institute of Management and Public Administration, a tertiary institution in Ghana.^[3]

Notes and references

1. "Kwamena Ahwoi Quits NDC?". General News of Thursday, 22 September 2005 (Ghana Home Page). Retrieved 2007-04-17.
2. "Kwamena Ahwoi Minister, Ministry of Local Governance and Rural Development, Ghana". Innovations for Successful Societies (Princeton University). Retrieved 2014-08-11.
3. "Empower District Offices of CHRAJ - Ahwoi". Official Local Government website. Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Environment, & Maks Publications & Media Services. Retrieved 2007-04-17.

• "Kwamena Ahwoi Quits Position". Africa News. (2005) AllAfrica, Inc. 23 September 2005
• "Ahwoi troubles Reform". Africa News (1999) AllAfrica, Inc. 21 December 1999

See also

• Kwesi Ahwoi