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Cecilia Gyan Amoah (26 October 1947 – 12 January 2023) was a Ghanaian educator, diplomat and politician who represented the Asutifi South Constituency in the Parliament of Ghana from 2001 to 2005.

Politics

She won the Asutifi South Constituency during the 2000 parliamentary elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), defeating incumbent Collins Dauda of the National Democratic Congress.

Amoah was the member of parliament for the Asutifi South Constituency from January 2001 to January 2005. This was following the death of her husband in 2000, who had previously stood for the party in that constituency. She left the ticket after a loss in the primary for the party in late 2004 to Thomas Broni, deputy Minister for the Interior. She was the first female MP of the NPP to be voted off a ticket.

She also served as Ghana's ambassador to Cuba, becoming High Commissioner to Barbados afterwards. On 13 June 2015, Amoah won the Asutifi South constituency New Patriotic Party parliamentary primaries to represent the party again in the Ghanaian general election in 2016. However, one member of her late husband's family (a distant cousin) did not support her attempt to return, calling the incumbent Collins Dauda "dangerous". Amoah had accused her electoral opponent Collins Dauda and his political party of using intimidation tactics after claiming they sent men to assault NPP polling agents. Amoah and several others were later attacked by unknown assailants, who destroyed several bicycles in their care.

2000 Elections

Amoah was elected as the member of parliament for the Asutifi South constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections. She was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. Her constituency was a part of the 14 parliamentary seats out of 21 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Brong Ahafo Region. The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 100 parliamentary seats out of 200 seats in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. She was elected with 8,220 votes out of 16,089 total valid votes cast. This was equivalent to 51.6% of the total valid votes cast. She was elected over Collins Dauda of the National Democratic Congress, Alfred Osei Nkrumah of the National Reform Party, Alex Osei Amankwaa of the Convention People's Party, and Kwabena Yeboah of the People's National Convention. These obtained 14,326, 359, 245, 207 and 200 votes respectively out of the total valid votes cast. These were equivalent to 57.5%, 39.7%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 0.6% and 0.6% respectively of total valid votes cast.

Amoah died on 12 January 2023 (aged 75) in Accra, Ghana.

References

1. Notice of death of Cecilia Gyan Amoah, ripghana.com. Accessed 10 February 2024.
2. "Alhaji Dauda goes unopposed in Asutifi South". Ghana News Agency. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
3. ^ "Broni Defeats Mrs. Gyan-Amoah". GhanaWeb. 2 September 2004. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
4. ^ "NPP Asutifi South Parliamentary Candidate Under Pressure To Bow Out Of Contest". Peace FM Online. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
5. "Ghanaian Embassy Donates Toys to Children's Hospital in Havana". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba. 1 March 2007. Archived from the original on January 6, 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
6. "CPAA Director Wants to See Student Exchange Programmes with Universities in Africa". Barbados Government Information Service. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
7. "You Want Our Vote...& You're Already Violating Laws...What If You Gain Power? - Pratt". Peace FM Online. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
8. "Collins Dauda's brother on rampage". Ghanaweb. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
9. ^ Electoral Commission of Ghana Parliamentary Result-Election 2000. Ghana: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2007. p. 16.
10. ^ "Statistics of Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results". Fact Check Ghana. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
11. "Reports". Archive IPU.
12. FM, Peace (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Brong Ahafo Region". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
13. ^ Electoral Commission of Ghana -Parliamentary Result-Election 2000. Ghana: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. 2007. p. 11.
14. ^ FM, Peace (17 December 2014). "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Asutifi South Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
15. Notice of death of Cecilia Gyan Amoah, ripghana.com. Accessed 10 February 2024.

• 1947 births
• 2023 deaths
• Ghanaian MPs 2001–2005
• Ghanaian educators
• New Patriotic Party politicians
• Women members of the Parliament of Ghana
• Ambassadors of Ghana to Cuba
• High commissioners of Ghana to Barbados
• Ghanaian women ambassadors
• 21st-century Ghanaian women politicians
• Politicians from Ahafo Region