Ekow Panyin Okyere Eduamoah
{{short description|Ghanaian politician}}
{{Use Ghanaian English|date=January 2023}}
{{use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
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| office = Regional Minister for Central region (Ghana)
| term_start = February 2025
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| vicepresident = Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang
| president = John Mahama
| predecessor = Kwamena Duncan
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| honorific-prefix = Hon.
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| office2 = Member of Parliament
| term_start2 = 7 January 2009
| term_end2 = 6 January 2017
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| president2 = John Atta Mills
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| predecessor2 = Richard Sam Quarm
| successor2 = Kojo Asemanyi
| name = Ekow Panyin Okyere Eduamoah
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| constituency = Gomoa East
| party = National Democratic Congress
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| alma_mater = University of Cape Coast
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Ekow Panyin Okyere Eduamoah is a Ghanaian politician and a former member of parliament representing Gomoa East constituency in the Central region of Ghana.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanamps.com/mps/details.php?id=138|title=Ghana MPs - MP Details - Eduamoah, Ekow Panyin Okyere|website=www.ghanamps.com|access-date=2020-01-29|archive-date=14 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114055346/http://www.ghanamps.com/mps/details.php?id=138|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/republic/parliamentatian.php?ID=68|title=Ghana Parliament member Ekow Panyin Okyere Eduamoah|website=www.ghanaweb.com|access-date=2020-01-29}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
He is currently serving as the Central region (Ghana)'s minister.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-15 |title=Curbing cholera transmission: Effutu Municipal Assembly organises clean-up exercise |url=https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/ghana-news-curbing-cholera-transmission-effutu-municipal-assembly-organises-clean-up-exercise.html |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Graphic Online |language=en-gb}}
Early life and education
Ekow was born on 3 November 1972{{Cite web |date=2016-05-06 |title=Ghana MPs - MP Details - Eduamoah, Ekow Panyin Okyere |url=http://ghanamps.gov.gh/mps/details.php?id=138 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506171531/http://ghanamps.gov.gh/mps/details.php?id=138 |archive-date=6 May 2016 |access-date=2020-07-09 |website=Ghana MPs}} in Potsin, a town in the Central Region of Ghana.He is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast where he obtained a Diploma in Management Studies in 2006.
Politics
He is a member of the National Democratic Congress. He was first elected as member of the parliament to represent Gomoa East Constituency in the 2008 Ghanaian General Elections. He thus represented the constituency in the 5th parliament of the 4th republic. He was elected with 18,908 votes out of the 35,212total valid votes cast, equivalent to 53.70% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Richmond Sam Quarm of the New Patriotic Party, Kofi Otu of the Democratic Freedom Party and Richmond K. Anwumanyi Grant of the Convention People's Party.{{Cite book|url=https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/10489.pdf|title=Ghana Elections 2008|publisher=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung|year=2010|location=Ghana|pages=79|access-date=9 July 2020|archive-date=17 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217143014/https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/10489.pdf|url-status=live}} These obtained 37.77%, 0.76% and 7.78% respectively of total valid votes cast. He also won his re-election bid into the office in the 2012 General Elections but lost his third re-election bid into the office in 2016 General Elections.{{Cite web|date=2019-01-14|title=2 Years of Hon. Kojo Asemanyi, Million Times Better than 8 Years of Ekow Okyere P. Eduamoah - NPP|url=https://kesenews.com/2019/01/2-years-of-hon-kojo-asemanyi-million-times-better-than-8-years-of-ekow-okyere-p-eduamoah-npp/|access-date=2020-07-09|website=KeseNews|language=en-GB|archive-date=13 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713011752/https://kesenews.com/2019/01/2-years-of-hon-kojo-asemanyi-million-times-better-than-8-years-of-ekow-okyere-p-eduamoah-npp/|url-status=live}} He was a committee member on Gender and Children, Employment, Social Welfare and State, Public Accounts. He was succeeded in office by kojo Asemanyi of the New Patriotic Party.
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Category:Ghanaian MPs 2017–2021
Category:National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians