Nana Abu Bonsra

Nana Abu Bonsra is a Ghanaian politician who served as the member of parliament for the Fomena Constituency.[2][3]

Hon.

Nana Abu Bonsra
ConstituencyFomena
Member of Parliament
In office
7 January 2009 – 6 January 2013
PresidentJohn Atta Mills
Personal details
Born (1949-09-03) 3 September 1949
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
OccupationDevelopment Planners/Architects/Quantity Surveyors[1]

Early life and education

Nana was born on 17 March 1957. He hails from Dompoase a town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He obtained his BSc in Design from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 1981. He further had his Post graduate diploma in Architecture from the same university in 1985.[4]

Career

He is a development planner by profession. He is also an architect and a quantity surveyor.[4]

Politics

He is a member of New Patriotic Party. He was the member of parliament for Fomena Constituency in the Ashanti region of Ghana.[4][5] This was for the 5th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[6] He obtained 11,787 votes out of the 16,650 valid votes cast equivalent to 70.8% of total votes cast.[6] He won against Samuel Pinkrah of the National Democratic Congress, Augustine Kofi Tieku of the Democratic People's Party and James Kobina Seotah of the Convention's People's Party.[7] These obtained respectively 20.60%, 0.46% and 8.14% of total valid votes cast in the 2008 Ghana general elections for the Fomena Constituency.[7]

Personal life

Bonsra is a Christian and a member of the Methodist Church.[4]

References
  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160506161657/http://ghanamps.gov.gh/mps/details.php?id=21
  2. "Ghana MPs – News & Events Details – Partner captains of industries to create jobs – Fomena MP urges gov't". www.ghanamps.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. "Newly elected Fomena MP grateful". MyJoyOnline.com. 2 January 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. "Odekro | What has your MP done for you?". staging.odekro.org. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  5. "Nana Abu Bonsra donates computers to 23 JHS". Modern Ghana. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  6. "Ghana MPs – MP Details – Abu-Bonsra, Nana". web.archive.org. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  7. Ghana Elections 2008 (PDF). Ghana: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 2010. p. 62.
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