Samuel Ofosu Ampofo’s Profile; Age, Wife, Children, Education And Net worth

Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo is a Ghanaian politician and a former member of parliament as well as the district Chief executive for the fanteakwa north district of the Eastern region of Ghana.

He is also a former eastern regional minister and a former national organizer of the national democratic congress. Ampofo is also a former minister for local government and rural development. He is currently the national Chairman for the national democratic congress(NDC).

DATE OF BIRTH

1st March, 1962. (60 Years)

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Ampofo was born in Kyebi in the eastern region of Ghana. He attained his basic school education at the Asamankese, Anum L/A Middle School ( 1976 – 1989).He then proceeded to the AkwatiaTechnical Institute for secondary education from 1979 to 1982.

He moved on to Kumasi Polytechnic in 1987 and went further to pursue a Post Graduate Certificate in Public Administration at the Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA) and at Haggai Institute in Hawaii Islands.

He also attended University of Education,Winneba(Kumasi Campus), now AAMUSTED to pursue a sandwich program from 1991 – 1993. Ampofo also attended University of Mines and Technology(UMAT) in Tarkwa and obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from 1983 -1985. He is also an alumnus of the USA-Specialized Studies in Advanced Leadership (1998).

WIFE

Joyce Ofosu-Ampofo

CHILDREN

Obed Ofosu-Ampofo, Steve Ofosu-Ampofo, Aaron Ofosu-Ampofo, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Ebenezer Ofosu-Ampofo, Vivian Ofosu-Ampofo

SAMUEL’S CAREER:

Ampofo is a member of the 3rd parliament of the fourth republic of Ghana and a politician of the National Democratic Congress. His political career started when he was a appointed District Chief Executive by His excellency former president Jerry John Rawlings from 1994 to 1996.

He then participated in the 1996 Ghanaian general elections as a parliamentary candidate for the Fanteakwa north constituency of the Eastern region of Ghana. He won this seat with a total of 21,284 of the total valid votes casted that year.

He retained his seat in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections with a total of 15,487 making 49.70% of the total valid votes casted. He contested again in the 2004 elections and lost to Kwadjo Agyei Addo of the new patriotic party. He went ahead to contest again in the 2008 ghanaian general elections and lost again to Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah of the New Patriotic party.

He stood for the party National Organizer position, and was appointed Ghana Minister for Local Government and Rural Development by President Mills during a cabinet reshuffle in January 2011. Prior to this appointment he had been the Eastern Regional Minister since the start of the Mills NDC government in 2009 and was succeeded by Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi.

He was later appointed Board Chairman of Ghana ports and Harbour Authority in 2013 under the regime of former president John Dramani Mahama. In November 2018, Ampofo was elected the National Chairman of the NDC at 9th delegate congress held at Fantasy Dome at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra. His contenders were Dan Abodakpi, Betty Mould Iddrisu, Alhaji Huudu Yahaya and Danny Annang.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Educationists, Mechanical Technician-Engineer and Public Administrator
Trainee Machinist Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Ltd. (Akwatia) 1982.

Trainee Technician (Attachment), GHAIP Oil Refinery (Tema)1984.

Mechanical Technician Engineer -Civil Aviation Authority (National Service Scheme) Accra/Kumasi Airports(1985-1987);

Tutor-St. Paul’s Technical Institute (1989/1990-1993)

Engineering -Technology /Practice, Kukurantumi (1990-1993)

District Chief Executive (DCE)- Fanteakwa District Assembly (1994-1996)

Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa Constituency 1996-2004

Deputy Eastern Regional Minister 1997-2000

Acting District Chief Executive Manya

Krobo District Assembly 1999-2000

National Organizer, National Democratic Congress (NDC)

Minister of Local Government and Rural Development

BOARDS, COMMITTEES AND OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES

General Secretary, Technician Eng. Students Association (TESA),U.S.T. School of Mines 1984

Dep. Gen. Sec. JCR – UST School of Mines 1985

Course Master – General Engineering (GE) – St. Paul’s Tech. Institute

Chairman, ‘HOST DAY’ Planning Committee of the International Tourism Organization, held in Eastern Region, Koforidua 1998

Board Member – VRA Resettlement Trust Fund 1996-2001

Board Member-Value Added Tax (VAT) Board 1998

Chairman-Regional Committee on 2000 National Population Census 2000

Member-Haggai Alumini – Haggai Institute, Hawaii Islands (USA)

Member-Parliamentary House Committee 1997-2001

Member-Parliamentary Select Committee on Education 1997-2001

Deputy Ranking Member, Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development 2001-2004

Member- Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Poverty Reduction 2002-2004

Member-Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy 1997-2001

Member-Parliamentary Select Committee on Government Assurances 2001-2004

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS ATTENDED

“Decentralization and the Promotion of Human Rights and Administrative Justice” 1994(SSNIT – Koforidua)

Seminar on Contract Management and Administration, 11th-13th October, 1994

Workshop on Decentralization – 25th -30th September, 1994

Workshop on Productive uses of Electricity, 2nd-3rd August, 1995 (S.O.S, Asiakwa)

Workshop for District Political Decision Makers 1995
GLSS/GDHS Dissemination Seminar for Policy Makers and Planners, 26th June, 1996

Workshop on Ghana’s Decentralization Process: Problems and Prospects, 26th – 28th October, 2001 Conference on National Security Organized by UNDP/Ministry of Defence and Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA) 2nd – 5th October 2005

Attended a course on Mediation and Conflict Transformation, offered by the UNDP, at Greenland Hotel, Swedru, from 16 – 27 Oct. 2005

OTHER IMPORTANT POSITIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS UNDERTAKEN

Chaired the Regional Technical Coordinating Committee on the Village Infrastructure Programme (VIP)

Represented the Head of State to inaugurate the Birim South District Assembly in April, 1998
Participated in the World Bank sponsored Pilot Project on Feeder Roads Decentralization in the Fanteakwa District of the Eastern Region.

Chairman, Youth-In-Agriculture Programme – Eastern Region.

Chairman, Regional Disaster Committee – Eastern Region

Chairman, Business Assistance Fund – Eastern Region.

Chairman, District Security Committee (DISEC) Fanteakwa District

Vice Chairman, Regional Security Committee (REGSEC) Eastern Region.
International assignments and conferences

Launched the York- Fanteakwa Link in Yorkshire – United Kingdom, 6thMarch, 2001(Sister-City Programme)

Leader of Delegation to Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth – United Kingdom from 23– 27 Sept. 2007

Member of Delegation to SPD Conference (Hamburg-Germany, 2007)
Leader of Delegation to Inauguration NDC Canada Chapter in Montreal – 2006
International awards

Honored with the title, “Kentucky Colonel” and also presented with the key to the City of Lexington in the State of the Kentucky U.S.A, 1998.

NET WORTH

He is estimated to worth $2m to $5m