Simon Osei-Mensah

Simon Osei-Mensah was born on 27 May 1961.[4] He hails from a town known as Jachie in the Ashanti region.[1] He obatined a Master of Science degree in economics from University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.[5][1] He obtained the degree in 1991.[1] He also has a Certificate in Banking from the Institute of Business located in Odense, Denmark.[4] He acquired the certificate in 1998.[1]

Osei-Mensah is an Economist and Banker by profession.[4] He worked as operations manager at Kuapa Kokoo Credit Union before aspiring into political office.[1]

Osei-Mensah is a member of the New Patriotic Party.[1][6][7][8][9] He became a member of parliament from January 2005 after emerging winner in the General Election in December 2004.[6][7] He run for a second and third term and won. He was the MP for Bosomtwe constituency.[1][6][7][8][9][10][11] He was elected as the member of parliament for this constituency in the fourth, fifth and sixth parliaments of the fourth Republic of Ghana.[6][7][8][9][10][11] In February 2020, after his party came back into office, he was appointed by President Nana Akuffo-Addo as the Ashanti regional minister.[12]

Osei-Mensah was elected as the member of parliament for the Bosomtwe constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana for the first time in the 2004 Ghanaian general elections.[7][6] He won on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.[6][7] His constituency was a part of the 36 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.[13] The New Patriotic Party won a majority total of 128 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[14] He was elected with 28,052 votes out of 34,225 total valid votes cast equivalent to 82% of total valid votes cast.[6][7] He was elected over Suleiman Mohammed of the Peoples’ National Convention, Edward Isaac Boateng of the National Democratic Congress and Paul Adomako Ansah of the Convention People’s Party.[6][7] These obtained 1.0%, 14.3% and 2.8% respectively of total valid votes cast.[6][7]

In 2008, he won the general elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency.[9][8] His constituency was part of the 34 parliamentary seats out of 39 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Ashanti Region.[15] The New Patriotic Party won a minority total of 109 parliamentary seats out of 230 seats.[16] He was elected with 25,988 votes out of 37,194 total valid votes cast.[8][9] This was equivalent to 69.87% of total valid votes cast.[8][9] He was elected over Suleiman Mohammed of the Peoples’ National Convention, Dr. Joseph Oteng Adjei of the National Democratic Congress and Gilbert Adler Alhassan of the Convention People’s Party.[8][9] These obtained 1.46%, 27.67% and 0.99% respectively of the total votes cast.[8][9]

In 2012, he won the general elections one more time on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party for the same constituency.[10][11] He was elected with 34,790 votes out of 52,269 total valid votes cast.[10][11] This was equivalent to 66.56% of total valid votes cast.[10][11] He was elected over Joe Oteng-Adjei of the National Democratic Congress, Kwame Ofosu Chei of Progressive People’s Party and Yaw Wiredu of the People’s National Convention.[10][11] These obtained 32.97%, 0.36% and 0.11% respectively of the total votes cast.[10][11]

Osei-Mensah is a Catholic Christian.[1] He is married with five children.[1]

• List of MPs elected in the 2004 Ghanaian parliamentary election
• List of MPs elected in the 2008 Ghanaian parliamentary election
• List of MPs elected in the 2012 Ghanaian parliamentary election