Emmanuel Owuraku Amofah is a Ghanaian politician and lawyer from Kibi who served as a member of the Parliament of Ghana for Abuakwa Central constituency from 1992 to 1996. He is a former deputy communication minister and deputy tourism minister. In 1992, he founded the Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere party. As a lawyer, he has worked in New York City as the CEO of Parking Ticket Busters, a ticket-broker business, as an attorney at Amofah Law Firm and as a one-time administrative law judge at the city's Parking Violations Bureau. In 2017, Amofah was reported to have illegally altered documents in his various parking ticket cases by utilising knowledge from his former judge position, cheating the city out of over $100,000 in fines.
Politics
Amofah studied law in America and was involved in Ghana's politics, serving as a Deputy of Tourism under President Jerry Rawlings. In 2000, he had an argument with Rawlings over failing to choosing Obed Asamoah as a running mate. Asamoah was rumored to have taken money from the National Democratic Congress so that Amofah could have a position in the government. During the confrontation, Amofah allegedly slammed the door on Rawlings' fingers, injuring him. As a result, Amofah went into a self-imposed exile in the US, where he became a Magistrate Judge in Staten Island, New York. His membership in EGLE lapsed while he was out of the country shortly after. Amofah would later join the NDC in 2002 before leaving the party in 2008. In 2013, he returned to Ghana as a member of the New Patriotic Party, where he supported his uncle Nana Akufo-Addo for a position in the government. However, when Akufo-Addo was running for president, he later changed his stance and claimed that Akufo-Addo would "be the worst President for Ghana." Amofah rejoined the NDC in 2014.
Children
Amofah is the father of multiple children, including two sons who are deceased, Randy and Desmond Amofah. Desmond was an American YouTube personality and online streamer who was better known by his online alias Etika. On June 20, 2019, Desmond was reported missing by the New York City Police Department, and his body was found in the East River on the evening of June 24. After identification of his body, he was publicly pronounced dead on the morning ofJune 25. On June 26, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner determined that the cause of Desmond's death was drowning, and the manner was suicide. Randy Amofah died on October 31, 2010 from an asthma attack while driving through a sandstorm in Ghana, according to Desmond's ex-girlfriend Christine Cardona, better known by her online alias Alice Pika.
