Ambrose Dery Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Ambrose Dery
Honorific-Suffix:MP
Office:Minister for the Interior (Ghana)
Term Start:January 2017
Term End:February 14, 2024
President:Nana Akufo-Addo
Predecessor:Prosper Douglas Bani
Successor:Henry Quartey
Office1:Member of the Ghana Parliament for Nandom (Ghana parliament constituency)
Term Start1:2016
President1:Nana Akufo-Addo
Birth Date:1956 8, df=yes
Nationality:Ghanaian
Party:New Patriotic Party
Children:1
Alma Mater:University of Ghana (Bachelor of Law)

Ambrose Dery (on 23 August 1956), a Ghanaian politician, is the Interior Minister[1] and Member of Parliament for Nandom Constituency.[2] [3] [4] He won the constituency during the 2016 elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.[5]

Biography

Hon. Dery is a legal practitioner who entered the University of Ghana in 1977 after completing Navrongo Secondary School and graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LL. B) and then called to the Bar in 1982.[6]

Career

Dery was the head and managing director of Dery & Co.[7]

Political career

Before entering parliament in 2008, Hon. Dery was appointed Deputy Attorney General in 2003. He also served in two ministerial positions as the Regional Minister for the Upper West Region from 2004 to 2006 and Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice from 2005 to 2007.[8] Hon. Dery served as the Deputy Minority Leader for the fifth parliament of Ghana. Hon. Dery won the Nandom parliamentary seat, then Lawra-Nandom Constituency in 2008 but lost the seat to Benjamin Kumbuor in the 2012 elections. Hon. Dery served as the Chairman of the Water Aid Partner Round Table, an association of local NGOs funded by Water Aid for ten years (1993-2003). On the list presented to parliament for approval on 21 January 2021, Hon. Dery was nominated by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, to maintain his ministerial position as the Interior minister[9] and was later relieved from office on February 14, 2024 prior to the end of his tenuer of office.[10]

Personal life

Ambrose is a Catholic and married with one child.

Committees

He was a member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and also a member of Selection Committee.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-05-20. 144 murder cases recorded in first quarter of 2021 – Interior Minister. 2021-05-20. Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana. en-US.
  2. Web site: EC declares Ambrose Dery winner in Nandom Constituency. 2016-12-09. Ghana Business News. 2017-02-04.
  3. Web site: Ocquaye for Speaker, Nitiwul for Defence, Ofori-Atta, Finance. Allotey. Godwin Akweiteh. 2016-12-17. Ghana News. 2017-02-04.
  4. Web site: MPs call for probe of all electoral violence. 2021-05-18. Graphic Online. en-gb.
  5. Web site: 2016-12-08 . Ambrose Dery wins Nandom constituency . 2019-05-03 . Pulse Ghana . en-US.
  6. News: Who is Ambrose Dery?. Online. Peace FM. 2017-02-07.
  7. Web site: Parliament of Ghana . 2023-06-12 . parliament of ghana.
  8. Web site: 2016-12-08 . Provisional: Ambrose Dery recaptures Nandom seat • Ghanamma.com . 2017-02-07 . Ghanamma..
  9. Web site: Akufo-Addo presents first list of ministers for his second term to parliament - MyJoyOnline.com . 2021-01-22 . myjoyonline. . en-US.
  10. Web site: GNA . 2024-02-14 . President reshuffles Cabinet, 13 ministers, 10 deputies out . 2024-02-23 . Ghana News Agency . en-US.

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