Kwamina Bartels

Kwamina Bartels (born October 27, 1947 , Agona Swedru ) is a Ghanaian politician and lawyer . In the government of President John Agyekum Kufuor , he was Minister for Information and National Orientation until July 2007 and has now been Minister of the Interior since August 2007, succeeding Albert Kan-Dapaah .

education

Bartels was born in Agona Sewdru in the Central Region . Between 1961 and 1968 he first attended the Nungua Secondary School and later the Mfantsipim School, where he also took his GCE A-Level. In 1968 he enrolled at the University of Ghana in Legon, a district of Accra, in law, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Law. He moved to the Ghana School of Law in Accra to be admitted to the bar.

In 1975 Bartels graduated from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) with a certificate in human resource management . Bartels completed a post-graduate course in University Administration at the University of Ife in Nigeria.

Career

Bartels worked as the Administrative Secretary in 1971 in the Ministry of Agriculture in Ghana. In 1973 he moved to the Ghana Food Distribution Corporation (GFDC) in the position of secretary. At the University of Applied Sciences in Accra (Accra Polytechnic), he became a part-time teacher in 1974 in Commercial Law.

At the University of Cape Coast ( University of Cape Coast ), he worked in administration. He also worked as a lawyer at Addae-Twum and Company . He later went back to Nigeria to take a job at Anabra State Polytechnic.

Bartels' political career began in 1969 as Secretary of the Progress Party (PP) at the University of Ghana . As early as 1979 Bartels was a candidate of the Popular Front Party (PFP) for the constituency of Ablekuma Nord, but was defeated by the candidate of the People's National Party (PNP). In 1992, Bartels was a candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the constituency of Agona West. Due to the election boycott of the NPP in the 1992 elections, Bartels was unable to obtain a seat in parliament.

In the 1996 and 2000 elections, Bartels then won his old constituency Ablekuma Nord and has been a member of the Ghanaian parliament ever since.

Bartels was Minister for Private Sector Development in the first term of President John Agyekum Kufuor and Minister for Information and National Orientation in the second term from 2005 to July 2007. In July 2001, he joined the Home Office as Minister.

See also

• List of Ghanaian politicians
• Government of Kufuor

Web links

• Official government website with photo