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Hon.Felix Owusu-AdjapongMP
Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Akyem Swedru
In office
7 January 1997 – 6 January 2009
Preceded byPaul Kofi Peprah
Succeeded byJoseph Ampomah Bosompem
Minister for Energy
In office
2008–2009
PresidentJohn Kufuor
Preceded byJoseph Kofi Adda
Succeeded byJoe Oteng-Adjei
Personal details
Born(1944-02-13)13 February 1944
Akyem Swedru
Died4 October 2023(2023-10-04) (aged 79)
Ghana
Resting placeAkyem Swedru
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
Alma materKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ghana School of Law
OccupationPolitician

Felix Kwasi Owusu-Adjapong (13 February 1944 – 4 October 2023) was a Ghanaian politician who was a member of the Parliament of Ghana as a New Patriotic Party (NPP) representative for Akyem Swedru of the eastern region of Ghana. He also served as Minister for Energy.

Early life and education

Felix Owusu-Adjapong studied Land Economy at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. He also studied Housing, Planning and Building at the Bouwcentrum Institute in Rotterdam, Urban Land Appraisal at the University of Reading in England, and law at the Ghana School of Law.

Political career

Owusu-Adjapong was a member of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Parliaments of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was first elected Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru in the 1996 Ghanaian general elections with a total of 15,824 making 45.30% of the total valid votes cast that year. He was re-elected in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections with a majority of 14,614 making 56.80% of the votes cast. In February 2001 he was appointed Minister for Transport and Communications, and in April 2003 Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

In the 2004 Ghanaian general elections, he was elected again as Member of Parliament with a majority vote of 21,048 making 66.94% of the total votes polled that year. In 2007 he resigned his ministerial position to make an unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination of the NPP. He did not contest his parliamentary constituency at the 2008 Ghanaian General Elections, and Joseph Ampomah Bosompem won it for the NPP with a majority of 8,469. In June 2008 he was appointed Minister of Energy, holding the post until the end of Kufuor's government in January 2009.

Death

Felix Owusu-Adjapong died on 4 October 2023, at the age of 79.

Parliament of Ghana
Preceded byPaul Kofi Peprah Member of Parliament for Akyem Swedru
1997–2009 		Succeeded byJoseph Ampomah Bosompem
Preceded by? Majority Leader
2005–2008 		Succeeded byAbraham Ossei Aidooh
Political offices
Preceded byEdward Salia
Minister for Roads and Transport 		Minister for Transport and Communications
2001–2003 		Succeeded byRichard Winfred Anane
Minister for Roads, Highways and Transport
Preceded byEkwow Spio-Garbrah
Minister for Communications 		Succeeded byAlbert Kan Dapaah
Minister for Communications and Technology
Preceded by? Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
2003–2007 		Succeeded byAbraham Ossei Aidooh
Preceded byJoseph Kofi Adda Minister for Energy
2008–2009 		Succeeded byJoe Oteng-Adjei

See also

References

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  11. Government names new Cabinet, GhanaWeb, 1 April 2003
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  13. "Ghana Election akim-swedru Constituency Results". GraphicGhana. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  14. Electoral Commission of Ghana Archived 12 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  15. Felix Owusu-Adjapong files tomorrow, GhanaWeb, 31 October 2007
  16. "Parliamentary Results Akyem Swedru (Eastern Region)". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  17. Four "New" Ministers sworn into office, GhanaWeb, 12 June 2008
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