Barbara Asher Ayisi

Hon
Barbara Asher Ayisi
Member of Parliament for
Cape Coast North constituency
In office
7 January 2017 – 6 January 2021
Succeeded byKwamena Minta Nyarku
Deputy Minister for Education
In office
March 2017 – 6 January 2021
PresidentNana Akufo-Addo
Personal details
Born (1976-02-12) 12 February 1976 (age 48)
Effutu, Ghana
Political partyNew Patriotic Party
Children2
Residence(s)Central region, Cape Coast
Alma materUniversity of Cape Coast
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionEducationist

Barbara Asher Ayisi (born 12 February 1976) is a Ghanaian politician and the former Member of Parliament of the Cape Coast North constituency in the Central Region of Ghana. She is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and was the former deputy minister for Education in Ghana.[1][2][3][4][5] She was appointed as the chairperson for the Women's Premier League Super Cup's Local Organizing Committee (LOC).[6]

Early life and education

Barbara Asher Ayisi was born on 12 February 1976 in Effutu, Central Region of Ghana. She is an alumna of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) College of Education and the University of Education, Winneba. She holds a master's degree in English literature from the University of Cape Coast.[7][8]

Employment history

Before her election as member of parliament, she worked as a Form Mistress between 2003 and 2006 with the Ghana Education Service (GES) and also as a House Mistress from 2010 to 2016 at Wesley Girls High School.[9]

Politics

Asher Ayisi is a member of the New Patriotic Party and was a member of parliament for the Cape Coast North constituency in Ghana's Central Region.[9]

2016 election

Asher Ayisi contested the Cape Coast North constituency parliamentary seat on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party during the 2016 Ghanaian general election and won with 19,475 votes, representing 49.78% of the total votes. She won the parliamentary seat over Kwabena Owusu Akyeampong of the National Democratic Congress who pulled 16,309 votes which is equivalent to 41.69%, parliamentary candidate for the Progressive People's Party (PPP) Sarah Mary Bucknor who had 3,251 votes representing 8.31%, and the parliamentary candidate for the Convention People's Party Peter Caesar Kwegyir Aggrey pulled 88 votes representing 0.22% of the total votes.[10]

2020 election

Asher Ayisi again contested the Cape Coast North constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party during the 2020 Ghanaian general election but lost the election to Kwamena Minta Nyarku of the National Democratic Congress.[11][12][13][14]

She is the Deputy Minister for Education in charge of basic schools. She has a foundation called the Barbra Asher Foundation ,which focuses on reducing unemployment among the youth in her constituency. The Barbra Asher Foundation in collaboration with Cape Coast Technical University's Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation has trained more than 200 youth in the Cape Coast constituency in entrepreneurial skills.[15]

Personal life

She is Christian and attends Victory Bible Church International. She is married and has two children.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Deputy Ministers". Government of Ghana. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Akufo-Addo releases names of 50 deputy and 4 more ministerial nominees". Graphic Ghana. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  3. ^ "List of Akufo-Addo's 50 deputy ministers and four news ministers". Yen Ghana. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Akufo-Addo names 50 deputies, 4 ministers of state". Cifi FM Online. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Akufo-Addo picks deputy ministers". Ghana Web. 20 February 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Barbara Ayisi chairs Women's Super Cup LOC - MyJoyOnline.com". Myjoyonline. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Ghana MPs – MP Details – Ayisi, Barbara Asher". GhanaMps. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  8. ^ Ghana, ICT Dept. Office of Parliament. "Parliament of Ghana". parliament. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  9. ^ a b "Parliament of Ghana".
  10. ^ FM, Peace. "Cape Coast North Constituency Results - Election 2016". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  11. ^ FM, Peace. "Cape Coast North Constituency Results - Election 2020". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Cape Coast North – Election Data Center – The Ghana Report". Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Parliamentary Results for Cape Coast North". mobile.ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  14. ^ "2020 PARLIAMENTARY RESULTS – Electoral Commission". Electoral Commission Ghana. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  15. ^ "C/R: Barbara Asher Foundation Trains 200 Youth In Entrepreneurial Skills". Modern Ghana. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  16. ^ "Ghana MPs – MP Details – Ayisi, Barbara Asher". GhanaMps. Retrieved 9 March 2019.


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