Kweku Tanikyi Kesse | |
Office1: | MP for Evalue-Gwira constituency |
Term Start1: | January 2013 |
Term End1: | January 2017 |
President1: | John Dramani Mahama |
Predecessor1: | Catherine Afeku |
Successor1: | Catherine Afeku |
Birth Place: | 1967 7, df=y |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Occupation: | Politician |
Kweku Tanikyi Kesse is a Ghanaian engineer and politician.[1] He is a former Member of Parliament of Evalue Gwira Constituency and a member of the National Democratic Congress of Ghana. He lost his re-election bid to Catherine Afeku in the 2016 parliamentary election whom he had earlier defeated during the 2012 parliamentary election.[2]
Kesse was born on 7 July 1967. He hails from Bamiankor, a town in the Western Region of Ghana. He obtained his Master of Science degree in Automatic Control Engineering from the Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba in 1994.[1] [3]
Kesse worked at the Tema Oil Refinery as a Projects Engineer from 1997 to 2002. He later joined RAM Engineering Limited where he worked as a Project Manager from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 until 2012, Kesse was the managing director of KABK Engineering Limited[1] [3]
Kesse entered parliament on 7 January 2013 representing the Evalue-Gwira constituency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. He lost the seat in 2016 to Catherine Afeku of the New Patriotic Party[1] [3]
Kesse is married with three children. He identifies as a Christian.[1] [3]