Kwamena Ahwoi

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Kwamena Ahwoi (born 1951) is a politician in Ghana who served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development from 1990–2001 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 1990s. In 2005, he resigned as director of research for the NDC.^[1]

Kwamina Ahwoi studied Law on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford. His career in the NDC government has allowed him various positions. In the mid 1980s, Awhoi served as director of the office of Revenue, Commissioners, Investigations, and Tribunals, and was the acting secretary of 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.^[2]

[edit] Notes and references

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

Political offices
Preceded by William H. Yeboah	Minister for Local Government and Rural Development 1993 – 1997	Succeeded by Cecilia Johnson
Preceded by Dr. Obed Asamoah	Foreign Minister (acting)1 1997	Succeeded by Victor Gbeho
New title	Minister for Planning and Regional Economic Co-operation and Integration ? – 2001	Succeeded by Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku

Persondata
NAME	Ahwoi, Kwamena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ghana
DATE OF DEATH	Living
PLACE OF DEATH