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Hon. Kwamina
Bartels |
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Minister for Information & National
Orientation
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma
North and the Minister for Information and National Orientation, Hon
Kwamena Bartels, was born on October 27, 1947, at Agona Swedru,
in the Central Region. |
He had his secondary education at Secondi College, Nungua
Secondary School and Mfantsipim School between 1961 and 1968, where
he sat for the G.C.E. Ordinary and Advanced Level Examinations.
Mr Bartels gained admission into the University
of Ghana in 1968, where he studied law. After obtaining a Bachelor
of Law degree in 1971, he studied at the Ghana School of Law to become
a professional lawyer.
In 1975, Mr Bartels obtained certificate in Personnel
Management at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
(GIMPA). He also had a stint at the University of Ife in Nigeria in
1975, where he did a post-graduate course in University Administration.
Mr. Bartels working experience dates back to 1971
where he served as the Administrative Secretary to the Task Force,
Food Distribution under the Ministry of Agriculture. He joined the
Ghana Food Distribution Corporation (GFDC) as a secretary in 1973
and in the following year ended up at the Accra Polytechnic as a Part-Time
lecturer in Commercial Law.
Mr Bartels joined the University of Cape Coast
as an assistant registrar in charge of Staff Training programmes and
also served as Secretary to five Statutory University Committees.
The former Minister for Private Sector Development joined Addae-Twum and
Company, a private legal practitioner. He later left for Nigeria where
he worked as a Principal Assistant Registrar of the Anambra State
Polytechnic.
Mr Bartels political career began in 1969 when he served
as the Secretary of the University of Ghana branch of the erstwhile
Progress Party (PP). He was also a member of the Front for Prevention
of Dictatorship, which fought against the UNIGOV concept which was
the brain child of the late Gen. Kutu Acheampong in 1978.
The MP for Ablekuma North stood on the ticket of the defunct
Popular Front Party (PFP) in 1979 but was defeated by the People's
National Party (PNP) candidate in the Parliamentary election.
In 1992, Mr Bartels was also the parliamentary
candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Agona West Constituency
but the Party boycotted the parliamentary elections because of what
it described as electoral malpractice. He shifted camp to the Ablekuma
North Constituency where he won the 1996, 2000 and 2004 parliamentary polls.
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