Moses Amadu Yahaya is 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 Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...
building technician, politician and was a
Member of Parliament
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for the
Kumbungu constituency in the
Northern Region of Ghana. He is a member of the
Convention Peoples' Party.
Professional life
Yahaya worked as a development worker for the
of the Northern Region. From 1996 to 2006 he worked with the
international NGO
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NGOs are independent of government ...
Ghanaian Danish Community Programme as a development officer. After his contract with the
Danish International Development Agency
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) is the brand used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark when it provides humanitarian aid and development assistance to other countries, with focus on developing countries. There is no dist ...
(DANIDA) ended, he worked with Kings Village, another international NGO which helped in the areas of community education and health. He worked to improve the quality of life of the people in the district till he appointed acting country Director of the NGO until his election as MP.
He is currently the Eastern Regional Manager for National Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) (2017–present)
Development activities
Moses Yahaya's relationships with the
British Army
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with assistance from the UK based organization 58AI aided him to drill 67 boreholes for 32 communities in the Tolon-Kumbungu District. He lobbied for 136 boreholes for the 116 communities in the Kumbungu area and connected 7 communities with pipe borne water. He secured loans for women groups to help them to develop self-help financial activities.
Political life
While he was working with DANIDA, Yahaya developed an interest in politics. He served as the
assemblyman for one of the communities in the Kumbungu constituency.
2012 election
During the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, Yahaya stood on the ticket of the Convention Peoples' Party and contested the seat with four other candidates namely
Muhammad Mumuni
Muhammad Mumuni (born 28 July 1949) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was reelected to Ghana's Parliament in the 7 December 2012 General Elections, when he won the Kumbungu Seat. Mumuni left parliament in 2004 when he became John Atta M ...
of the
National Democratic Congress, Abdulai Mohammed Saani of the
New Patriotic Party
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, Alhassan Abukari of the
Progressive People's Party and Imoro Issahaku of the National Democratic Party. Muhammad Mumuni won the elections with a majority of 18,285 votes, while Yahaya got 4,134 of the total votes cast representing 12.79%.
2013 by-election
In 2013, the
Electoral Commission
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announced that it would hold a
by-election
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in Kumbungu to fill the vacant parliamentary seat.
The seat became vacant after the incumbent MP, Muhammad Mumuni, was appointed the
secretary-general
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of the
Economic Community of West African States
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(ECOWAS) and African Caribbean Pacific countries to complete the tenure of Dr.
Mohammed Ibn Chambas
Mohamed Ibn Chambas (born 7 December 1950 in Bimbilla, Ghana) is a Ghanaian lawyer, diplomat, politician and academic Ghana who has served as an international civil servant since 2006. He last served as the United Nations Special Representative ...
. Yahaya competed against two other candidates,
Imoro Yakubu Kakpagu
Imoro Yakubu Kakpagu (born February 1958) is a Ghanaian politician and a former member of the Parliament of Ghana for the Kumbungu constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the National Democratic Con ...
of the NDC and Ahmed Nasiru Mohammed of the Progressive People's Party (PPP). Yahaya got 13,029 votes representing 51.80% of the total votes cast.
He thus becomes the only Convention People's Party Member of Parliament for the term 2013 to 2017.
References
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Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians
Ghanaian MPs 2013–2017
Living people
1952 births