Sad news …The former deputy minister of finance Anthony Akoto Osei has passed on following a short illness..
Anthony Akoto Osei, who also served as an MP for Old Tafo, died on Monday (20 March) at the University of Ghana Medical Centre.
Profile of Akoto Osei
Anthony Akoto Osei was born in Sunyani to a distinguished statesman on 18 April 1953. He served as MP for Old Tafo in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. During his time in Parliament, he was a ranking member for the committee on finance and member of the committee of interior and defence.
Osei obtained a PhD from Howard University in 1987, a Master of Arts degree in Applied Economics from the American University in 1980. He had earlier obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Economics from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1978. He attended Achimota and Opoku Ware Secondary Schools, where he obtained his G.C.E Advanced and Ordinary levels respectively.
In the erstwhile JA Kufuor administration, he was made first (from 2001-2003) a special advisor to the minister of finance and economic planning and later appointed a deputy minister of the same ministry in 2003 and elevated to minister of state at the ministry of finance and economic planning, a position he held until the NPP party lost power in December 2008.
In 2006, he founded the Wealth Creation and Social Development Skills Training Center which trains about one hundred youth every year.
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