Kwamena Ahwoi is a politician in Ghana

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 who served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development from 1990–2001 in the National Democratic Congress

National Democratic Congress (Ghana)

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 (NDC) government, during the reign of Jerry Rawlings

Jerry Rawlings

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. He also briefly served as Minister of foreign affairs in 1997, and was acting minister in that department during much of 1990s. In 2005, he resigned as director of research for the NDC.

Kwamina Ahwoi studied Law on a Rhodes Scholarship

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 at Oxford

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. His career in the NDC government has allowed him various positions. In the mid 1980s, Awhoi served as director of the office of Revenue, Commissioners, Investigations, and Tribunals, and was the acting secretary of foreign affairs. by 1990, he was Secretary for Local Government and Rural Development. During his term in the office of foreign affairs, he attempted to unify the NDC with the National Reform Party

National Reform Party (Ghana)

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 in 1999, and he sent troops to join the Nigeria

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n led ECOMOG in quelling the Sierra Leone Civil War

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 after a coup in 1997. After the NDC lost in the election of 2000, Ahwoi was critical of the new New Patriotic Party

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 government, and worked to reduce factionalism in the NDC.

He is a now a lecturer at the Greenhill Institute of Management and Public Administration, a tertiary institution in Ghana.

See also

• Kwesi Ahwoi
  Kwesi Ahwoi
  -Education:Kwesi Ahwoi attended Prempeh College at Kumasi where he obtained his GCE Ordinary Level in 1965. His sixth form education was at Saint Augustine’s College at Cape Coast where he passed the GCE Advanced Level in 1967. His undergraduate education was at the University of Cape Coast where...