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The Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana is the presiding officer of the Parliament of Ghana. The current speaker, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin , was sworn-in for a second term as Speaker of the Ninth Parliament of Ghana after his reelection on 7 January 2025; having served his first term from 7 January 2021 to January 6, 2025.
[10] [11] He hails from Sombo, Upper West Region of Ghana. Alban Bagbin was educated at the Wa Secondary School and Tamale Secondary School. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and English at the University of Ghana in 1980. [12] He proceeded to the Ghana School of Law at Makola in Accra after which he was called to the bar in 1982. [7]
The Speaker is not an elected member of parliament though must be qualified to stand for election as such. There are a total of 276 constituencies in Ghana. The 9th Parliament first convened on 7 January 2025 to elect a Speaker and Deputy Speakers as well as for the administration of oaths to the Speaker and Members of Parliament.
The current First Deputy Speaker is Hon. Bernard Ahiafor of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Second Deputy Speaker - The Second Deputy Speaker presides over the sittings of Parliament in the absence of the Speaker and the First Deputy Speaker. The current Second Deputy Speaker is Andrew Amoako Asiamah an independent candidate.
He became the chairman of Ghana Water Company Ltd (GWCL) in 2017. [8] [9] He was alleged to have been involved in the near collapse of GWCL and other financial improprieties, [10] [11] over which he launched a defamation lawsuit in the court. [12] He has been on the Committee of Defense, Interior and Finance Committees in Ghana's Parliament [6]
Edward Korbly Doe Adjaho, MP (born 3 January 1957) is a Ghanaian politician and lawyer who was Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana from 2013 to 2017. He is the fifth Speaker elected in the Fourth Republic of Ghana and the first Speaker to have been elected from amongst members of Ghana's parliament in the Fourth Republic.
A puisne judge at the Cape Coast judicature from 1948 to 1949, E. C. Quist was the first African President of the Legislative Council from May 1949 to 1951, Speaker of the National Assembly of the Gold Coast from 1951 to 1957, [18] and Speaker of the National Assembly of Ghana from March 1957 until his retirement on 14 November 1957.
Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes was born on 4 September 1939 at Cape Coast, [2] the capital of the Central Region of Ghana.From 1945 to 1953, he had his basic education at Cape Coast Government Boys School (now the Philip Quaque Boys School), founded c. 1766 by Philip Quaque, the first African to be ordained an Anglican vicar. [3]