Marricke Kofi Gane (born July 19, 1974) also known as ''Kofi Ghana'' is a Ghanaian management consultant, Chartered Accountant, Public Speaker, book author and an aspiring independent presidential candidate of

Ghana 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 ...

Early life and education

Marricke was born in

Keta Keta is a coastal town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is the capital of the Keta Municipal District. Keta was an important trading post between the 14th and the late 20th centuries. The town attracted the interest of the Danish, because they f ...

to a trader mother and an engineer father; he is the third of his parents' four children. He spent part of his childhood with his grandparents as his fisherman grandfather's boy and as a second-hand clothes stall assistant to his grandmother on market days at

in 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-et ...

. He attended the A.M.E. Zion Primary School in Keta for his Junior High School education and the Keta Senior High School afterwards. He studied professional Accounting and graduated as a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA). He has a certificate in “Micro-finance for Development” from the University of Greenwich.

Career

Kofi started his career as an Audit Trainee with Messrs Pannell Kerr Forster (PKF). He went on to serve in an Audit senior role, then as an Audit & Consulting Manager at PKF. He served as Co-Audit Senior role at the

Ghana Commercial Bank GCB Bank Limited formally known as ''Ghana Commercial Bank'' is the largest bank in Ghana in terms of total operating assets and share of industry deposits, with 14.2% of total industry deposits. In August 2017, the Bank of Ghana, the nation's cen ...

. He also served as a Feasibility Studies Consultant for the potential revival of the then Pwalugu Tomato factory, and with the Benso Oil Palm Plantation. Marricke also lectured several ACCA, CIMA and ICSA courses in several institutions in Ghana. He later worked for development, policy, think-tank and diplomatic organisations such as Christian Aid, the Commonwealth Secretariat, International Alert, and lastly, Crown Agents. He is currently a Director of Studies in selected Public Financial Management Subjects. Marricke is also an opinion columnist at ModernGhana.com.

Politics

In 2019 Marricke announced his intention to run for office as president of Ghana as an independent candidate. In August 2020, he left the Coalition of Independent Political Aspirants (CIPA) to run his own campaign based on what he describes as a flawed process leading to Kofi Koranteng being chosen as the lead candidate going into the December polls. He launched his manifesto and campaign at the Alisa Hotel in Accra. In October 2020, his party's nomination was disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC) for technical reasons. He challenged his disqualification by the EC but was subsequently dismissed by an Accra High Court.

References

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