Akufo-Addo sacks Deputy Education Minister, Gifty Twum Ampofo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as part of a ministerial reshuffle since assuming office in January 2017 has sacked Deputy Minister for Education and Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North constituency Gifty Twum Ampofo.
With immediate effect, the former Deputy Minister of Education in Charge of Technical, Vocational Education and Training TVET has been replaced by Member of Parliament for Kwadaso constituency, Honourable Kingsley Nyarko.
Gifty Twum Ampofo’s relief off duty as the Minister of Education for TVET by His Excellency Akufo-Addo comes after she lost the just-ended parliamentary primary in the Abuakwa North constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
According to a local media report sighted by Thisterm.com, the incumbent Abuakwa North lawmaker, Gifty Twum-Ampofo polled 202 votes losing to Nana Ampaw Addo-Frempong who had 222 votes.
Profile of Gifty Twum-Ampofo
Gifty Twum-Ampofo (born 11 June 1967) had her BSc. in Biology from the University of Cape Coast in 1997. She further had her MBA in Strategic Management in 2018. She also had her BSc from the University of Ghana (UG).
She has served as Minister of Education and Deputy Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection of the Republic of Ghana.
The Abuakwa North Member of Parliament holds an MBA in Strategic Management Studies from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a BSc in Biology from the University of Cape Coast.
Ampofo was a Science tutor at Akosombo International School before becoming a Member of Parliament. She was also the Head of the Science Department and Head of Examinations at the Volta River Authority.
In March 2016, she contested and won the NPP parliamentary primaries for the Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana after the death of Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu.
She later won the Abuakwa North Constituency by-elections with 10,033 votes, making up 89.60% of the total votes cast, while the Ghana Freedom Party parliamentary candidate Samuel Frimpong had 263 votes making 2.35% of the total votes cast, and the United People’s Party parliamentary candidate Isaac Kwarteng had 901 votes making 8.05% of the total votes cast.