Ashanti Regional Minister

The Ashanti Regional Minister is the Ghana government official who is responsible for overseeing the administration of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The region is home to the Ashanti people who are ruled by the Asantehene. It has always been an politically important region due to this. Since the December 2019 referendum, there are currently sixteen administrative regions in Ghana. The capital has always been at Kumasi.

List of Ashanti Regional Ministers

Number	Minister	Took office	Left office	Government	Party
1	Osei Owusu Afriyie (MP)[1] (Special Commissioner for Greater Accra)			Nkrumah government	Convention Peoples' Party
2	Stephen Willie Yeboah[2]	c. 1964
3	Brigadier D. C. K. Amenu	1966	?	National Liberation Council	Military government
4	H. R. Annan (MP)	1969	January 1972	Busia government	Progress Party
5	Lt. Colonel E. A. Baidoo[3] (Regional Commissioner)	January 1972		National Redemption Council	Military government
6	Commander Joy K. Amedume (Regional Commissioner)	1974	October 1975
7	Major L. K. Kodjiku[4] (Regional Commissioner)	October 1975	1977	Supreme Military Council
8	Commander G. E. Osei[5] (Regional Commissioner)	1977	1978
9	Colonel R. K. Zumah[6] (Regional Commissioner)	1978	June 1979
		June 1979	September 1979	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
10	J. O. Afram	1979		Limann government	People's National Party
11	J. Y. Ansah (Regional Secretary)			Provisional National Defence Council	Military government
12	Daniel Ohene Agyekum	1993	1997	Rawlings government	National Democratic Congress
13	Kojo Yankah[7]	1997	1999
14	Samuel Nuamah-Donkoh	1999
15	Sampson Kwaku Boafo[8]	2001	2006	Kufuor government	New Patriotic Party
16	Emmanuel A. Owusu-Ansah[9]	2006	January 2009
17	Kofi Opoku-Manu	2009	2011	Mills government	National Democratic Congress
18	Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah	2011	July 2012
		July 2012	January 2013	Mahama government
19	Samuel Sarpong	February 2013	March 2013
20	Eric Opoku	March 2013	July 2014
21	Samuel Sarpong	July 2014	March 2015
22	Peter Anarfi-Mensah	March 2015	2017
23	Simon Osei-Mensah[10]	February 2017	Incumbent	Akufo-Addo government	New Patriotic Party

See also

• Ministers of the Ghanaian Government
• Ashanti Region

Notes

1. "Ghana Government Heads Pledge Loyalty - Accra Ghana Domestic Service in English 0600 GMT 12 February 1965". Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts (13): I2. 16 February 1965. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
2. "Ghanaian Ministers Tour USA". Ghana News: Dr Kwame Nkrumah Celebrates His 55th Birthday. 2 (9): 9. 21 September 1964. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
3. Jubilee Ghana - A 50-year news journey thru' Graphic. Accra, Ghana: Graphic Communications Group Ltd. 2006. p. 171. ISBN 9988809786.
4. Nkrumah, I. K. (editor) (2 June 1976). "Ahlijah Calls on Otumfuo". Newspaper (7968). Graphic Communications Group Ltd. Daily Graphic. Retrieved 12 April 2020.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
5. Obed Asamoah (20 October 2014). The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013): The Experience of a Non-Conformist. AuthorHouseUK. p. 243. ISBN 978-1496985620. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
6. "Regional Commissioners as at Sept. 1, 1978". Ghana News. Washington DC: Embassy of Ghana. 7 (8): 13. September 1978. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
7. "Cabinet reshuffles, Kojo Yankah out of Ashanti". www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web. 4 November 1999. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
8. "Twenty-nine Ministers sworn into office". www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web. 2 February 2005. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
9. "New Ministerial List: Summary". www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
10. "Regional Ministers Approved". www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web. 18 February 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2020.