Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah

Kwakye-Ackah holds an MBA in Marine Engineering from the prestigious Leicester University, United Kingdom, and a First-Class Marine Engineering Certificate from the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Studies in Cardiff, Wales. In addition, he holds a Second Marine Engineering Certificate from South Tyneside College, United Kingdom. He also has experience as an Engineer trainee at the Regional Maritime University.

 From 2007 to 2010, Kwakye-Ackah worked as a Chief Engineer at Tidewater Marine in the United States. Another international assignment in his career includes his role as a Chief Engineer at Ocean Tankers Pte Ltd. in Singapore.

In the 2016 election, Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah of the NDC secured victory with 17,801 votes (50.48%), defeating Patrick Hockson Ampongteng of the NPP, who received 17,256 votes (48.93%), while Abrokwa Isaac of the CPP garnered 207 votes (0.59%).

In the subsequent 2020 election, Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah, again representing the NDC, emerged as the winner with 26,100 votes (52.9%), surpassing Patrick Hockson Ampongteng of the NPP, who obtained 21,926 votes (44.5%), and Apam Cecilia of GUM, who secured 1,302 votes (2.6%).

Kwakye-Ackah was part of the Public Accounts Committee and Education Committee.