Domelevo had surcharged then senior minister Yaw Osafo Marfo a powerful figure within the ruling NPP and four other officials of the finance ministry over the payment of US$1 million to Kroll Associates for a contract when 'there was no evidence of work done' according to a December 2018 audit report...
A current Senior Advisor of President Akufo-Addo a grandee of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo and four other senior officials challenged a $1 million surcharge Domelevo had levied on them...
' The Amidu report questioned the selection of Kofi Osafo-Maafo son of a senior minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo as a director of Agyapa Royalties...
Allies of the local bankers led by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo and Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen urged the President to allow Ghanaian banks more time...
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The Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo a former Finance Minister has suggested some education spending could be financed from the state's Heritage fund the sovereign wealth fund into which the government has to pay a percentage of oil export revenue (Confidentially Speaking AC Blog 24 Jan 2017)...
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The New Patriotic Party's former Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo said the government's introduction of five new tax bills pointed to an ‘economic management style of reckless spending more borrowing and increased taxation [that would] lead to economic suicide' (AC Vol 42 No 2 Brief honeymoon)...
The former Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo says that the delegate selection procedures are less than transparent and in need of reform...
Yet Kufuor who turned 70 in early December told the NPP's last congress that it was the turn of a slightly older generation of party men such as Akufo-Addo Hackman Owusu-Agyeman and Yaw Osafo-Maafo to succeed him...
THE TOP TRIO Three leading NPP presidential contenders have emerged: Foreign Minister Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo fresh from the African Union summit (AC Vol 48 No 14); Trade and Industry Minister Alan Kyerematen; and former Finance and Education Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo...
Yaw Osafo-Maafo who was sacked after successful stints at the Finance and Education ministries has been in the news recently as a World Bank consultant on reviving Liberia's economy...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Three Akyem hopefuls from the Eastern region Foreign Minister Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Water Resources Minister Hackman Owusu-Agyeman and former Finance and Education Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo show no sign of agreeing on a consensus candidate to challenge the three other favourites...
Other hopeful leaders are: Yaw Osafo-Maafo Minister of Education and Sports; Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo Foreign Affairs; Allan Kyerematen Trade and Industry who is Kufuor's personal choice son of a Fante mother and an Ashanti father...