Ashanti Regional Minister Explained

The Ashanti Regional Minister is the Ghana government official who is responsible for overseeing the administration of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The region is home to the Ashanti people who are ruled by the Asantehene. It has always been a politically important region due to this. Since the December 2019 referendum, there are currently sixteen administrative regions in Ghana. The capital has always been at Kumasi.

List of Ashanti Regional Ministers

Number	width=200	Minister	Took office	Left office	width=200	Government	width=200	Party
1	Osei Owusu Afriyie (MP)^[1]	1960	1961		Convention Peoples' Party
2	Stephen Willie Yeboah^[2]
3		1966	1967		Military government
4		April 1967	May 1967
5		May 1967	1969
6	H. R. Annan	October 1969	June 1971
7	Maxwell Owusu	June 1971	January 1972
8	Lt. Colonel E. A. Baidoo^[3] (Regional Commissioner)	January 1972			Military government
9	Commander Joy K. Amedume (Regional Commissioner)	1974	October 1975
10	Major L. K. Kodjiku^[4] (Regional Commissioner)	October 1975	1977	Supreme Military Council
11	Commander G. E. Osei^[5] (Regional Commissioner)	1977	1978
12	Colonel R. K. Zumah^[6] (Regional Commissioner)	1978	June 1979
		June 1979	September 1979	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
13	J. O. Afram	1979			People's National Party
14	J. Y. Ansah (Regional Secretary)				Military government
15	Daniel Ohene Agyekum	1993	1997		National Democratic Congress
16	Kojo Yankah^[7]	1997	1999
17	Samuel Nuamah Donkor	1999
18	Sampson Kwaku Boafo^[8]	2001	2006		New Patriotic Party
19	Emmanuel A. Owusu-Ansah^[9]	2006	January 2009
20	Kofi Opoku-Manu	2009	2011		National Democratic Congress
21	Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah	2011	July 2012
		July 2012	January 2013	Mahama government
22		February 2013	March 2013
23		March 2013	July 2014
24		July 2014	March 2015
25	Peter Anarfi-Mensah	March 2015	2017
26	Simon Osei-Mensah^[10]	February 2017	Incumbent		New Patriotic Party

See also

• Ministers of the Ghanaian Government
• Ashanti Region

Notes and References

1. Ghana Government Heads Pledge Loyalty - Accra Ghana Domestic Service in English 0600 GMT 12 February 1965 . Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts . 16 February 1965 . 13 . I2 . 12 April 2020.
2. Ghanaian Ministers Tour USA . Ghana News: Dr Kwame Nkrumah Celebrates His 55th Birthday . 21 September 1964 . 2 . 9 . 9 . 12 April 2020.
3. Book: Jubilee Ghana - A 50-year news journey thru' Graphic . 2006 . Graphic Communications Group Ltd . Accra, Ghana . 9988809786 . 171.
4. News: Nkrumah . I. K. . Ahlijah Calls on Otumfuo . 12 April 2020 . Newspaper . Daily Graphic . 7968 . Graphic Communications Group Ltd . 2 June 1976.
5. Book: . The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013): The Experience of a Non-Conformist . 20 October 2014 . AuthorHouseUK . 978-1496985620 . 243 . 12 April 2020.
6. Regional Commissioners as at Sept. 1, 1978 . Ghana News . September 1978 . 7 . 8 . 13 . 12 April 2020 . Embassy of Ghana . Washington DC.
7. News: Cabinet reshuffles, Kojo Yankah out of Ashanti . 12 April 2020 . 4 November 1999 . www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web.
8. News: Twenty-nine Ministers sworn into office . 12 April 2020 . 2 February 2005 . www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web.
9. News: New Ministerial List: Summary . 12 April 2020 . 13 May 2006 . www.ghanaweb.com. Ghana Web.
10. Web site: Regional Ministers Approved . www.ghanaweb.com . Ghana Web . 12 April 2020 . 18 February 2017.