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Ghana’s Deputy Finance Minister John Kumah (45) is no more. He is reported to have died in Germany where he had been receiving medical treatment for some time now. Kumah was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Ejisu constituency in the 2020 general election in Ghana under the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
Ghana’s Deputy Finance Minister John Kumah (45) is no more. He is reported to have died in Germany where he had been receiving medical treatment for some time now. Kumah was elected as a Member of Parliament for the Ejisu constituency in the 2020 general election in Ghana under the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He was then appointed Deputy Minister of Finance in April 2021.
Dr Kumah was an entrepreneur by birth, a lawyer by Profession, a politician by choice, and a preacher. He was a family man with six children and married to Apostle Mrs. Lilian Kumah. Politically active, Dr. John Ampontuah Kumah was a Member of Parliament for Ejisu, in the Ashanti Region. He had fifteen years of experience in leadership, creativity, innovation, and resourcefulness in creating jobs and supporting youth development.
As the first Chief Executive Officer for the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), he built NEIP as the enabler of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Ghana. Under his leadership, the program trained 7,000 startups in 2018 under the Presidential Business Support Programme and supported 1,350 beneficiaries with funds.
Before working for the government, Kumah was the founding member and Managing Partner of Aduaprokye Chambers, a law firm. He also worked as the founder of Majak Associates Ltd, a building and construction company. In November 2020, Dr. John Ampontuah Kumah received a Doctorate in Business Innovation from the Swiss Business School in Switzerland. Before then, he had acquired a Masters in Applied Business Research, at the same Business School in 2019.
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His educational background included a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Business Research in 2019 at the Nobel International Business School (NIBS). In 2009, he had an Executive Masters degree in Business Administration (Finance), from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
