Kojo Obed Amoako-Prempeh was a

Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

public servant and politician. He was the member of parliament for the Akan Wawa constituency from 9 June 1965 to February 1966 when the

Nkrumah government Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister and first President of Ghana. Nkrumah had run governments under the supervision of the British government through Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor-General. His first government under colonial ...

was overthrown. At the inception of the third republic, he was elected as the member of parliament for the

Akan Akan may refer to: People and languages *Akan people, an ethnic group in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire *Akan language, a language spoken by the Akan people *Kwa languages, a language group which includes Akan * Central Tano languages, a language group ...

constituency on the ticket of the

People's National Party The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by independence campaigner Osmond Theodore Fairclough. It holds 14 of the 63 seats in the House of Representatives, as 96 of the 227 local go ...

. He served in this capacity from 1979 to 1981. Prior to politics, he was the

Volta Region Volta Region (or Volta) is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, with Ho designated as its capital. It is located west of Republic of Togo and to the east of Lake Volta. Divided into 25 administrative districts, the region is multi- ...

regional loans officer for the Cocoa Marketing Board.

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20th-century Ghanaian politicians Ghanaian MPs 1965–1966 Ghanaian MPs 1979–1981 Year of birth missing Possibly living people Gold Coast (British colony) people People from Volta Region {{Ghana-politician-stub

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