They all held senior positions during Flight Lieutenant (Retired) Rawlings's 1981-2001 military-cum-civilian government in which John Atta Mills served as Vice-President; PV Obeng was effectively Prime Minister (until he resigned over corruption allegations in 1996); Tsikata ran security (until he was forced out in a squabble over control of the party); and Kwamena Ahwoi was Local Government Minister...
Kwamena Ahwoi was a key member of a committee which vetted applicants for 170 local government posts in the President's gift...
The NDC claims a 'social democratic' stance but some of its promises - mainly drafted by former deputy Defence Minister Tony Aidoo and Research Director Kwamena Ahwoi - seem unrealistic like setting up kibbutz-style state farms for unemployed youths and street children...
In April the courts ruled that Cashpro Limited a crop-buyer owned by NDC-backers Ato and Kwamena Ahwoi owes more than $2 mn...
His backers include party heavyweights such as Ato and Kwamena Ahwoi ex-Communications Minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah and former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings who has advised party members to 'vote for people who stuck to the party through thick and thin'...
The more urbane Security Minister Kofi Totobi-Quakyi and Local Government minister Kwamena Ahwoi rebutted the Reform Group's challenge in the state media...
Key factions are:• First Lady faction: Attorney General Asamoah and Sports Minister Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah; • The Fante Confederation: Minister of State (responsible for National Security) Kofi Totobi Quakyi Castle Chief of Staff Ato Dadzie; Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi and brother Ato (who brought in Atta-Mills as Rawlings' running mate in 1996); • The Ga clique: led by Justice Annan and Interior Minister Okaija Adamafio; • The Northern Region: led by Defence Minister Mahama Idrissu Deputy Education Minister Ibn Chambas NDC General Secretary Huudu Yahya and Transport Minister Edward Salia; • The Dzelukope group: focus has shifted from former National Security Advisor Captain Kojo Tsikata to poet and former Ambassador to the United Nations Kofi Awoonor and securocrats such as Chief of Defence Staff Lieutenant General Ben Akafia; • Asante caucus: P...
Vol 38 No 22 |
- COMMONWEALTH
Prior to this session Ghana's Foreign Minister Kwamena Ahwoi had already told journalists that Ghana would not apply air transport sanctions against Nigeria while other officials suggested the proposed Commonwealth sanctions against Nigeria would violate the Economic Community of West African States' treaty particularly the protocol on free movement of people...
Owusu-Acheampong (leader of the majority group in parliament) Information Minister Totobi Quakye and Acting Foreign Minister Kwamena Ahwoi...
There are the personal factions: the First Lady faction dominated by Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and Enoch Teye (ET) Mensah; the Obed Asamoah faction led by the former Foreign Minister; the Ahwoi faction led by Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi (now appointed acting Foreign Minister) and his brother Ato Ahwoi (energetic asset confiscators in the 1980s reputed to be among the wealthiest families in Ghana); the Fante Confederation faction which includes Totobi Quakyi and Ato Dadzie; and the Northern Faction led by Defence Minister Idrissu Mahama Issifu Ali Trade Minister Ibrahim Adamu Huudu Yahya and former Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed ibn Chambas...
); • Ahwoi faction: led by Local Government Minister Kwamena Ahwoi (supported by his brother Ato who runs commodity traders Cashgro) this faction is strongest in the Western region and works closely with NDC local government executives across the country; • Fante Confederation faction: includes Information Minister Totobi Quakyi and Ato Dadzie;• Northern faction: led by Defence Minister Idrissu Mahama and includes NDC national Co-Chairperson Issifu Ali Trade Minister Ibrahim Adamu Huudu Yahya and deputy Foreign Minister Ibn Chambas (a possible running mate for Rawlings)...
