Daniel Asafo-Agyei | |
Office: | Minister for Fisheries |
President: | Kwame Nkrumah |
Term Start: | 1965 |
Term End: | 1966 |
Constituency Mp1: | Manhyia |
Parliament1: | Ghana |
Predecessor1: | New |
Successor1: | Kwame Safo-Adu |
Term Start1: | 1965 |
Term End1: | 1966 |
Constituency Mp2: | Kumasi North |
Parliament2: | Ghana |
Predecessor2: | Cobina Kessie |
Successor2: | Constituency abolished |
Term Start2: | 1959 |
Term End2: | 1965 |
Birth Date: | 1890 |
Birth Name: | Daniel Emmanuel Asafo-Agyei |
Death Date: | 1980 |
Occupation: | Merchant |
Daniel Emmanuel Asafo-Agyei was a Ghanaian politician and merchant.[1] He replaced Cobina Kessie as the member of parliament for the Kumasi North constituency in 1959 when the latter took up a diplomatic appointment as Ghana's ambassador to Liberia.[2] [3] [4] Asafo-Agyei represented Kumasi North from 1959 until 1965 when he became the member of parliament for the Manhyia constituency.[5] [6] While in parliament, he was appointed deputy minister for Agriculture and in 1965 he was appointed minister for Fisheries (a new ministry that had been created at the time).[7] [8] [9] He served in this capacity until February 1966 when the Nkrumah government was overthrown.