Hon.
Ambrose Dery
MP
Minister for the Interior (Ghana)
Assumed office
January 2017
PresidentNana Akufo-Addo
Preceded byProsper Douglas Bani
Member of the Ghana Parliament for Nandom (Ghana parliament constituency)
Assumed office
2016
PresidentNana Akufo-Addo
Personal details
Born (1956-08-23) 23 August 1956
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Ghana (Bachelor of Law)

Ambrose Dery (on 23 August 1956), a Ghanaian politician, is the Interior Minister[1] and Member of Parliament for Nandom Constituency.[2][3][4] He won the constituency during the 2016 elections on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.[5]

Biography

Hon. Dery is a legal practitioner who entered the University of Ghana in 1977 after completing Navrongo Secondary School and graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LL. B) and then called to the Bar in 1982.[6]

Career

Dery was the head and managing director of Dery & Co.[7]

Political career

Before entering parliament in 2008, Hon. Dery was appointed Deputy Attorney General in 2003. He also served in two ministerial positions as the Regional Minister for the Upper West Region from 2004 to 2006 and Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice from 2005 to 2007.[8][9] Hon. Dery served as the Deputy Minority Leader for the fifth parliament of Ghana.[8] Hon. Dery won the Nandom parliamentary seat, then Lawra-Nandom Constituency in 2008 but lost the seat to Benjamin Kumbuor in the 2012 elections.[9] Hon. Dery served as the Chairman of the Water Aid Partner Round Table, an association of local NGOs funded by Water Aid for ten years (1993-2003).[6] On the list presented to parliament for approval on 21 January 2021, Hon. Dery was nominated by the president to maintain his ministerial position as the Interior minister.[10]

Personal life

Ambrose is a Catholic and married with one child.[6]

Committees

He was a member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and also a member of Selection Committee.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "144 murder cases recorded in first quarter of 2021 – Interior Minister". Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana. 2021-05-20. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  2. ↑ "EC declares Ambrose Dery winner in Nandom Constituency". Ghana Business News. 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  3. ↑ Allotey, Godwin Akweiteh (2016-12-17). "Ocquaye for Speaker, Nitiwul for Defence, Ofori-Atta, Finance". Ghana News. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  4. ↑ "MPs call for probe of all electoral violence". Graphic Online. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  5. ↑ "Ambrose Dery wins Nandom constituency". Pulse Ghana. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
  6. 1 2 3 Online, Peace FM. "Who is Ambrose Dery?". Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  7. 1 2 "Parliament of Ghana". parliament of ghana. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  8. 1 2 GhanaWeb TV (2017-01-22), PLAYBACK Appointments Committee vets Ambrose Dery (part 1), retrieved 2017-02-07
  9. 1 2 "Provisional: Ambrose Dery recaptures Nandom seat • Ghanamma.com". Ghanamma. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  10. ↑ "Akufo-Addo presents first list of ministers for his second term to parliament - MyJoyOnline.com". myjoyonline. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
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