Professor Gyan Baffour Will Take Over As Finance Minister- Okatakyie Afrifa

Professor Gyan Baffour Will Take Over As Finance Minister- Okatakyie Afrifa. Youth activist and journalist, Okatakyie Afrifa Mensah has alleged that Nana Addo has finally agreed to sack the current Finance Minister. This follows the call by Ghanaians and MPs on the President to sack the Finance Minister.

Afrifa Mensah alleged that the next Finance Minister Nana Addo will appoint is Professor Gyan Baffour.

“President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo has finally agreed to let Ken Ofori Atta go. Professor Gyan Baffour to take over”, he wrote on his Facebook wall.

George Yaw Gyan-Baffour (born 27 March 1951) is a Ghanaian development economist and politician. He is a former Member of Parliament who represented the Wenchi constituency from 2005 to 2021. He was a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., from 1993 to 2001. Professor Baffour is a member of the New Patriotic Party and the former Minister of Planning in Ghana.

Professor Gyan Baffour Will Take Over As Finance Minister- Okatakyie Afrifa

Gyan-Baffour was born in Wenchi in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. He attended the University of Ghana where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. The respectable man proceeded to the Helsinki School of Economics in Finland where he obtained a Diploma in Economics. He later obtained his master’s degree and Doctor of Philosophy degrees after enrolling at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Baffour also has a post-doctoral diploma from Harvard University.

He resigned from the position in 2004 so he could pursue his political ambitions. That year, he contested the Wenchi constituency parliamentary election on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. He won the election and went on to win the three subsequent elections in 2008, 2012, and 2016. He was appointed Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Planning from March 2005 to December 2008 by President Kufour.

In 2015, he publicly opposed the Mahama administration’s plan to seek a government bailout from the International Monetary Fund.[7] He believed that the solution to the then economic difficulty the country was going through could be resolved by accessing loans internally.