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Agenda 2020: Our Train is still in the Volta Region
Mr. Joseph AmenorwodeVolta Regional NDC Chair race: Joseph Amenorwode to contest?
Mr. Joseph AmenorwodeMr. Joseph Zaphenat Amenowode, former Volta Regional Minister under late President Mills is said to have an interest in contesting for the Chairmanship position of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the party’s world bank, Volta Region.
Mr. Amenowode, a professional teacher, served as the member of [ads1]parliament for the Hohoe South Constituency, now Afadzato South Constituency from January 2005 until 2016 when he resigned.
He was very instrumental in the establishment of the newly created Afadzato South District Fire Station of the Ghana National Fire Services for which he was applauded by the current administration of the Afadzato District Assembly for sparing part of his share of the MP’s Common Fund towards the project.
Let Know a little about Mr. Amenowode:
Mr. Amenorwode’s family hails from Ve-Deme in the Afadzato South District of the Volta Region. He attended the Hohoe Evangelical Presbyterian Secondary School (HEPSS) between 1966 and 1971 obtaining the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level.
He proceeded to Kpando Secondary School for his sixth form education, completing the GCE Advanced Level in 1973.
His undergraduate university education was at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he obtained the Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in 1979.
He continued for an extra year to complete a postgraduate diploma in 1980. In 1991, he obtained a master’s degree from the same university. He attended the Pratt Institute in New York City where he completed a Master of Professional Studies degree in Art Therapy in 1997.
Mr. Amenowode initially taught in the Ghana Education Service and later became a lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba.
Mr. Amenorwode in Politics:
Joseph Amenowode is a member of the National Democratic Congress. He first stood for elections in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2004, winning with a majority of 17,720 (75.6%) and taking his seat in the fourth parliament of the Fourth Republic. He retained his seat in the 2008 election. In 2009, he was appointed the Volta Regional Minister by the President of Ghana, late John Atta Mills, a position he held until he was dropped in a cabinet reshuffle by President Mills in early 2012.
In his last election, December 2012, he obtained 18,340 votes out of the 20,605 valid votes cast constituting 89.0% in the last elections and represents the National Democratic Congress and a member of the majority in parliament
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