Hon. Queenster Maame Pokuah Sawyerr | |
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Member of Parliament for Agona East Constituency | |
In office 2013–present | |
Deputy Central Regional Minister | |
In office 2013–2017 | |
President | John Dramani Mahama |
Personal details | |
Born | Agona Kwanyako,Central Region,Ghana | 1 July 1964
Political party | NDC |
Alma mater | Accra Polytechnic,Atlantic International University |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Businesswoman |
Committees | Youth,Sports and Culture Committee;Public Accounts Committee;Education Committee |
Queenstar Maame Pokua Sawyerr (born 1 July 1964) is a Ghanaian politician and the former deputy Central Regional Minister of Ghana. [1] [2] [3] She has been the member of parliament of the Agona East Constituency since 2013. [4]
Sawyerr was born on 1 July 1964 and hails from Agona Kwanyako in the Central Region of Ghana. [4] She received her higher national diploma from Accra Polytechnic and received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and master's in Public Administration from Atlantic International University. [5] [6] Atlantic International University is an unaccredited distance learning institution that has been characterized as a degree mill [7] ,and its degrees have been widely dismissed as "fake." [8]
Sawyerr is a business woman. [6] She was CEO of Queenstar Real Estates Company Limited before assuming her position as a member of parliament. [9]
Sawyerr is the member of the National Democratic Congress. She is currently the Member of parliament for Agona East Constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. [9]
In the 2020 Ghanaian general elections,Sawyerr won the Agona East parliamentary seat with 23,247 votes making 50.6% of the total votes cast whilst the NPP parliamentary candidate Kwesi Yankah had 22,292 votes making 48.5% of the total votes cast and the LPG parliamentary candidate Samuel Aryeequaye had 204 votes making 0.4% of the total votes cast,the CPP parliamentary candidate Appiah Kubi Sharfiu had 139 votes making 0.3% of the total votes cast and an Independent parliamentary candidate Anthony Adjetey Adjei had 97 votes making 0.2% of the total votes cast. [10] [11] [12]
Sawyerr is a member of the Youth,Sports and Culture Committee;a member of the Public Accounts Committee;and also a member of the Education Committee. [4]
Sawyerr is married with four children. [6] She is a Christian and worships as an Anglican. [4]
For over 10 years,Sawyerr developed the Maame Pokua Loan Scheme (MPLS) to distribute money and support women traders in her constituency. [13] The scheme is an interest free loan aimed to cushion women to expand their businesses. [14]
In 2014,she presented mathematical sets to over 1400 students in her constituency who wrote the BECE. [15]
In 2017,she also organized health screening for the widows and elderly at Gomoa Adzentum in the Gomoa East Constituency in the Central Region. [16]
In 2017,she presented food items to Muslims in Agona East Constituency during the month of Ramadan. [17]
In 2018,she also presented building materials and desks to about five schools in the Agona East Constituency. [18]
In October 2020,Sawyerr was banned from campaigning on the land of Agona by Nana Kojo Amuakwa V (the Chief of Agona Duakwa). She allegedly claimed to have paid the chief some amount of money for a project which the chief denied. [19]
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