Nana Amaniampong Marfo (born 6 March 1957) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the 6th Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.

Education and early life

Marfo obtained his GCE O level certificate from Tetrem School and his GCE A level from St. Augustine's College,

Cape Coast Cape Coast is a city, fishing port, and the capital of Cape Coast Metropolitan District and Central Region of Ghana. It is one of the country's most historic cities, a World Heritage Site, home to the Cape Coast Castle, with the Gulf of Guinea ...

. He earned a BSc Admin in Finance and Management and MBA in Marketing at the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian national public universities. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the Br ...

Personal life

Marfo hails from Tetrem-Afigya in the

Ashanti Region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

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 ...

. He is married with two children. He is a Christian (Baptist).

Politics

Marfo is a Ghanaian politician and a member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Afigya-Kwabre North Constituency in the

Ashanti region The Ashanti Region is located in southern part of Ghana and it is the third largest of 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of or 10.2 percent of the total land area of Ghana. In terms of population, however, it is the mo ...

on the ticket of the

New Patriotic Party , logo = , colorcode = #132f7a , founder = , founded = 28 July 1992 , dissolved = , leader = Nana Akufo-Addo , chairman = Stephen Ayensu Ntim Stephen Ntim elected NPP National Chairman on fifth attempt http://www.gna.org.gh/1.2152672 ...

2012 election

Marfo first contested in the 2012 Ghanian general election on the ticket on New Patriotic Party for th Afighya-Kwabre North in the Ashanti region of Ghana and won the election with 17, 597 votes representing 69.34% of the total votes. He won the election over Alex Yaw-Poku of National Democratic Congress, Daniel Atta Asenso Preprah of PPP, Duah Hubert of Convention people's party, Francis Boadu of NDP and Joyce Oduro of PNC. They obtained 6, 207 votes, 1, 073 votes, 205 votes, 175 votes and 120 votes respectively of the total votes. These is equivalent to 24.46%, 4.23%, 0.81%, 0.69%, and 0.47% respectively.

2016 election

Marfo contested for Afighya-Kwabre North parliamentary seat in the 2016 Ghanian general election on the ticket of

and won the election with 17, 978 votes representing 71.52% of the total votes. He won the election over Kwaku Agyekum Asare of National Democratic Congress who polled 6, 689 which is equivalent to 26.61%,

Convention people's party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a Socialism, socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Conven ...

parliamentary candidate Frank Opoku had 204 votes representing 0.81%, parliamentary candidate of PPP Francis Boadu had 197 votes representing 0.78% and PNC parliamentary candidate Joyce Oduro polled 68 votes which is equivalent to 0.27% of the total votes. During the 2020 NPP primaries Marfo lost the election to Collins Adomako Mensah to represent New Patriotic Party in 2020 Ghanian general election.

Employment

After completing his studies at the

in 1989, Marfo worked as a national service personnel at National Mobilization. From 1991 to 1994 he was a Senior Superintendent at the

Ghana Education Service The Ghana Education Service (GES) is a government agency under the Ministry of Education responsible for implementing government policies that ensure that Ghanaians of school-going age irrespective of their ethnicity, gender, disability, religiou ...

(GES). A year after leaving GES, he was appointed senior manager of 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 ...

working as the SME head of the Northern Sector. He served in that capacity from 1995 to 2012. From 2009 to 2012 he doubled as a lecturer at the University College of Education.

References

Ghanaian MPs 2017–2021 1957 births Living people New Patriotic Party politicians {{Ghana-politician-stub