The nominee for Deputy Minister for Energy position, Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, is expected to appear before the Appointment Committee of Ghana’s Parliament to be vetted by the committee today ( Monday, June 7, 2021).
The nominee, a lawyer by profession, is the incumbent Member of Parliament for Secondi Constituency in the Western Region.
Energynewsafrica.com’s sources within the country’s Energy Ministry indicate that if the nominee goes through the vetting successfully and is approved, he will be in charge as Deputy Energy Minister responsible for Petroleum while Dr Mohammed Amin will be responsible for Power.
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Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, born on 25th May, 1973, is a lawyer and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party and the incumbent Member of Parliament for the Sekondi Constituency in the Western Region of Ghana.
He succeeded Papa Owusu-Ankomah who had been MP for 20 years.
He attended Chapel Hill Preparatory School in Takoradi for his primary education.
He proceeded to the Adisadel College in Cape Coast where he obtained both his GCE Ordinary level and GCE Advanced level certificates.
He gained entrance into the University of Ghana, graduating with Honours in Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Bachelor of Laws.
He studied at the Ghana School of Law and qualified as a lawyer in Ghana after passing his bar examination.
He joined First Atlantic Bank in Accra in 2007 as an Assistant Manager and advanced to become the head of the legal department.
Whilst at First Atlantic, he contested and lost the 2011 Parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party in Sekondi to the incumbent Papa Owusu-Ankomah.
He resigned in 2013 to set up Mercer and Company, a corporate and investment law firm based in Accra.
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