Moses Asaga

Hon.
Moses Asaga
Member of Parliament for Nabdam Constituency
In office
7 January 2009 – 6 January 2013
PresidentJohn Atta Mills
John Mahama
Member of Parliament for Nabdam Constituency
In office
7 January 2005 – 6 January 2009
PresidentJohn Kufuor
Personal details
Born (1957-06-01) 1 June 1957 (age 67)
NationalityGhanaianGhana 
Political partyNational Democratic Congress
Alma materDurham University, University of Aberdeen, Yonsei University
ProfessionEconomist/ Banker

Moses Aduku Asaga is a Ghanaian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Nabdam in the Upper East Region of Ghana from 1997 to 2013. He lost the seat in the December 2012 elections to Boniface Agambilla of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)[1] who has stood against him in the 2008 election but lost. He was also a Minister for Employment and Social Welfare in Ghana.[2] He was appointed in early 2012 following a cabinet reshuffle by President Mills.[3]

Moses Asaga had been nominated for a ministerial position in 2009 but was withdrawn following a controversy about some ex-gratia awards he had authorised.[4] After John Dramani Mahama won the 2012 General Elections, he replaced Moses Asaga with Nii Armah Ashietey as Minister of Employment and Social Welfare.[5] He was then given the position as the C.E.O of the National Petroleum Authority in 2013 by former president John Dramani Mahama

Early life and education

Moses Asaga holds a BSc in Industrial Chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He also holds a MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Aberdeen University and MBA, Finance from Yonsei University. In addition to that he has MPhil in Financial Economics from Durham University, United Kingdom.[6]

Career

Asaga is an economist and a banker.[7] He was the manager and project financier of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) in Tema.[8]

Political career

Asaga is a member of the National Democratic Congress.[8] He became a member of parliament from January 2005 after emerging winner in the General Election in December 2004.[9] He is the MP for Nabdam constituency.[10][7] He has been elected as the member of parliament for this constituency in fourth and fifth parliament of the fourth Republic of Ghana.[9][11]

Elections

Asaga was first elected into Parliament on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress with votes representing 8,490 votes out of the 11,348 valid votes cast representing 56.30% over Nicholas Nayembil Nonlant who polled 2,107 votes representing 14.00% and Edward Babah Sampanah who polled 750 votes representing 5.00%.[12]

He was elected as the member of parliament for the Nabdam constituency of the Upper East Region of Ghana in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections.[13][9] He won on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[13][9] His constituency was a part of the 9 parliamentary seats out of 13 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Upper East Region.[14] The National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 94 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[15] He was elected with 6,450 votes out of 10,778 total valid votes cast.[13][9]

This was equivalent to 59.8% of total valid votes cast.[9][13] He was elected over Somtim Tobiga of the Peoples’ National Convention, Boniface Gambila Adagbila of the New Patriotic Party and Tampure Ayenyeta William of the Convention People's Party.[9][13] These obtained 1,002, 3,227 and 99 votes respectively of total votes cast.[13][9] These were equivalent to 9.3%, 29.9% and 0.9% respectively of total valid votes cast.[13][9]

In 2008, he won the general elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress for the same constituency.[8] His constituency was part of the 8 parliamentary seats out of 13 seats won by the National Democratic Congress in that election for the Upper East Region.[16] The National Democratic Congress won a minority total of 114 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[16]

He was elected with 5,369 votes out of 11,230 total valid votes cast.[17][11] This was equivalent to 47.81% of total valid votes cast.[11][17] He was elected over Boniface Agambila Adagbila of the New Patriotic Party, Somtim Tobiga of the People's National Convention and Tampugre Ayenyeta William of the Convention People's Party.[11][17] These obtained 45.39%, 6.37% and 0.44% respectively of the total votes cast.[11][17]

Personal life

Asaga is a Christian Catholic.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Moses Asaga lose Nabdam seat to Boniface Agambilla". Graphic Ghana.
  2. ^ "Mills tasks new ministers to excel". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Full Text Of Reshuffle By President Mills". GhanaWeb. 30 November 2001. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  4. ^ "Returnee Moses Asaga: Hard work pays". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Ghana News Agency". GhanaNewsAgency.
  6. ^ "GCB Directors". GCB. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  7. ^ a b Ghana Parliamentary Register, 2004-2008. Ghana: The Office of Parliament. 2004. p. 179.
  8. ^ a b c d "Ghana MPs - MP Details - Asaga, Moses". GhanaMps. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Peace FM (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 2004 Results - Nabdam Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  10. ^ Peace FM (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 2004 Results - Bawku Central Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b c d e Peace FM (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 2008 Results - Nabdam Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  12. ^ FM, Peace (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 1996 Results - Nabdam Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g Elections 2004; Ghana's Parliamentary and Presidential Elections. Accra: Electoral Commission of Ghana; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2005. p. 186.
  14. ^ "Statistics of Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results". Fact Check Ghana. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  15. ^ FM, Peace (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 2004 Results - President". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  16. ^ a b FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2008". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  17. ^ a b c d Ghana Elections 2008. Ghana: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2010. p. 114.
Parliament of Ghana
Preceded by
Danzi Paul Kpal
 Nabdam
1997 – Jan 2013 		Succeeded by
Boniface Agambilla
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Employment and Social Welfare
2012 – Jan 2013 		Succeeded by
Nii Amah Ashietey

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