Ashanti Regional Minister
The Ashanti Regional Minister is the Ghana government official who is responsible for overseeing the administration of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The region is home to the Ashanti people who are ruled by the Asantehene. It has always been an politically important region due to this. Since the December 2019 referendum, there are currently sixteen administrative regions in Ghana. The capital has always been at Kumasi.
List of Ashanti Regional Ministers
Number | Minister | Took office | Left office | Government | Party |
1 | Osei Owusu Afriyie | Nkrumah government | Convention Peoples' Party | ||
2 | Stephen Willie Yeboah | Nkrumah government | Convention Peoples' Party | ||
3 | Brigadier D. C. K. Amenu | 1966 | ? | National Liberation Council | Military government |
4 | H. R. Annan | 1969 | January 1972 | Busia government | Progress Party |
5 | Lt. Colonel E. A. Baidoo | January 1972 | National Redemption Council | Military government | |
6 | Commander Joy K. Amedume | 1974 | October 1975 | National Redemption Council | Military government |
7 | Major L. K. Kodjiku | October 1975 | 1977 | Supreme Military Council | Military government |
8 | Commander G. E. Osei | 1977 | 1978 | Supreme Military Council | Military government |
9 | Colonel R. K. Zumah | 1978 | June 1979 | Supreme Military Council | Military government |
9 | Colonel R. K. Zumah | June 1979 | September 1979 | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council | Military government |
10 | J. O. Afram | 1979 | Limann government | People's National Party | |
11 | J. Y. Ansah | Provisional National Defence Council | Military government | ||
12 | Daniel Ohene Agyekum | 1993 | 1997 | Rawlings government | National Democratic Congress |
13 | Kojo Yankah | 1999 | Rawlings government | National Democratic Congress | |
14 | Samuel Nuamah-Donkoh | 1999 | Rawlings government | National Democratic Congress | |
15 | Sampson Kwaku Boafo | 2001 | 2006 | Kufuor government | New Patriotic Party |
16 | Emmanuel A. Owusu-Ansah | 2006 | January 2009 | Kufuor government | New Patriotic Party |
17 | Kofi Opoku-Manu | 2009 | 2011 | Mills government | National Democratic Congress |
18 | Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah | 2011 | July 2012 | Mills government | National Democratic Congress |
18 | Kwaku Agyemang-Mensah | July 2012 | January 2013 | Mahama government | National Democratic Congress |
19 | Samuel Sarpong | February 2013 | March 2013 | Mahama government | National Democratic Congress |
20 | Eric Opoku | March 2013 | July 2014 | Mahama government | National Democratic Congress |
21 | Samuel Sarpong | July 2014 | March 2015 | Mahama government | National Democratic Congress |
22 | Peter Anarfi-Mensah | March 2015 | 2017 | Mahama government | National Democratic Congress |
23 | Simon Osei-Mensah | February 2017 | Incumbent | Akufo-Addo government | New Patriotic Party |