Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
Baba Jamal | |
Parliament: | Ghana |
Office2: | Member of Ghana Parliament Akwatia |
Term Start2: | 7 January 2013 |
Term End2: | 6 January 2017 |
Birth Name: | Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed |
Birth Date: | 7 May 1969 |
Birth Place: | Akwatia, Ghana |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | National Democratic Congress |
Alma Mater: | University of Ghana |
Profession: | Manager director |
Children: | 5 |
Mohammed Baba Jamal Ahmed (born 7 May 1969) is a Ghanaian politician. He was a member of Parliament for Akwatia Constituency.[1] He served as the deputy minister-designate for Local Government and Rural Development.[2]
Ahmed was born in 1969 at Akwatia in the Eastern region of Ghana. He holds an MPhil in International Politics and a degree in law from the University of Ghana.
Ahmed worked as the managing director of Meeme Business venture in Akwatia. And also served as the deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress.[1] He was called to the Bar in 2015.[3]
On 7 December 2012, Ahmed won the parliamentary seat for Akwatia constituency for the first time, on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress in the 2012 Ghanaian General Elections obtaining 50.44% of the total valid votes cast.[4]
He lost the seat to Mercy Ama Sey in the 2016 General Elections after he polled 15,905 votes while Mercy Ama Sey garnered 21,433 of the total valid votes cast.[5]
Ahmed is a Muslim. He is married with five children.