Honorific-Prefix: | Hon |
Bright Wireko-Brobby | |
Constituency Mp: | Hemang Lower Denkyira |
Parliament: | Ghana |
Term Start: | 7 January 2017 |
Birth Date: | 6 January 1972 |
Birth Place: | Twifo Hemang, Ghana |
Birthname: | Bright Wireko-Brobby |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Party: | New Patriotic Party |
Alma Mater: | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Dortmund |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Committees: | Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee, Local Government and Rural Development Committee |
Bright Wireko-Brobby[1] (born 6 January 1972) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Eight Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He is also the Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations.[2] [3] [4]
Wireko-Brobby was born on 6 January 1972 and hails from Twifo Hemang in the Central Region of Ghana. He holds an M.S.C in Planning and L.L.B from the Faculty of Law from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He continued to the University of Dortmund where he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Spatial Planning.[5] [6]
Wireko-Brobby has worked with organizations such as USAID, UNHCR and UNDP. He also worked with the Ghana Education Service. He was also the Executive Director for Community Empowerment Associates.
Wireko-Brobby is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He is currently the Member of Parliament for Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency in the Central Region.
In the 2016 Ghanaian general election, he won the Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency parliamentary seat with 15,043 votes making 58.4% of the total votes cast whilst the NDC parliamentary candidate Foster Joseph Andoh had 10,338 votes making 40.1% of the total votes cast, the PPP parliamentary candidate Paul Kinsley Ambantem had 257 votes making 1.0% of the total votes cast and the CPP parliamentary candidate John Felix Krampah had 119 votes making 0.5% of the total votes cast.[7]
In the 2020 Ghanaian general election, he again won the Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency parliamentary seat with 14,791 votes making 52.9% of the total votes cast whilst the NDC parliamentary candidate Foster Joseph Andoh had 12,692 votes making 45.4% of the total votes cast and the GUM parliamentary candidate Appiah Kubi had 473 votes making 1.7% of the total votes cast.[8]
Wireko-Brobby is a member of the Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee and also a member of the Local Government and Rural Development Committee.
Wireko-Brobby is a Christian.[9]