Hon. Kwabena Donkor | |
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Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 7 January 2013 | |
Preceded by | Masoud Baba Abdul-Rahman |
Succeeded by | Emmanuel Kwaku Boam |
Constituency | Pru East |
Minister for Power | |
In office December 2014 –December 2015 | |
President | John Dramani Mahama |
Personal details | |
Born | Lonto via Yeji,Ghana | 5 March 1958
Political party | National Democratic Congress |
Alma mater | University of Bristol,Lancaster University |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Chief Executive Officer |
Committees | Employment,Social Welfare and State Enterprises Committee (Ranking Member);Standing Orders Committee;Mines and Energy Committee |
Kwabena Donkor (born 5 March 1958) is a Ghanaian politician and a former Minister for Power. [1] He served as the Member of Parliament for the Pru East constituency in the Bono East Region from **2013 to 2025**. He lost his parliamentary seat in the **2024 elections** to Emmanuel Kwaku Boam of the NDC. [2]
Donkor was born on February 5,1958,in Lonto via Yeji in the Bono East Region of Ghana. He holds a PhD and master's degree from the University of Bristol,and a master of business administration from Lancaster University. [1]
Donkor served as the deputy minister of information from 2013 to 2014. He is a founding member of Petroleum Commission and he served as its chief executive officer in 2014. In that same year,he became a cabinet minister of the Government of Ghana. He became a member of the Parliament of Ghana in 2015 and served as the Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Energy. [3] [1] He currently represents the Pru East Constituency in the Bono East Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress. [1] [4]
Donkor contested for the seat of the Pru East constituency in the 2016 general elections and won. He garnered 13,512 votes which represents 56.19% of the total votes cast and therefore defeated the other contestants including David Amoah,Danjumah Desmond,Noah Ken Boadai and Zevor Mattew Tsiditsey. [5] He retained his seat in the 2020 Ghanaian general election. [6]
Donkor is the Ranking Member of the Employment,Social Welfare and State Enterprises Committee;also a member of the Standing Orders Committee;and also a member of the Mines and Energy Committee. [7]
Donkor is a Christian. He is married with four children. [8]