Tema-Ghana, May 5, CDA Consult – Mrs. Abena Osei-Asare, Deputy Minister of Finance, has long-term family links with Mr. Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten which was established through her late father, Nana Tweneboah-Boateng, Sanaahene of Akyem Ayinam Traditional Area.
Mr. Kyeremanten has known the late Nana Tweneboah-Boateng’s family for many years, and the two have collaborated and worked at EMPRETEC Ghana, the President’s Special Initiative on Garment and Textile, and numerous other organisations.
Nana Tweneboah-Boateng, who died on February 27, 2018, was the Trade Ministry’s Senior Technical Advisor and played a key role in driving the government’s Industrial Transformation Agenda, reporting directly to Mr. Kyeremanten.
Mrs. Abena Osei-Asare, a banker and certified accountant who has been a Member of Parliament for Atiwa East in the Eastern Region since January 7, 2013, according to a family source, cannot endorse anyone other than Mr. Kyeremanten at this time.
“As a result, the media must stop sowing discontent in Mrs. Osei-Asare’s favour by betraying the Vice President’s campaign team for the former Trade Minister.”
“In fact, it would have been a high point of hypocrisy if Mrs. Osei-Asare had joined the Vice President’s camp against that of the former Trade Minister,” a family source added.
Mrs. Osei-Asare has worked closely with the Vice President and the Vice President’s Office as a Deputy Minister of Finance, according to a family source.
“Mrs. Osei-Asare respects the Vice President’s office and his desire to run for the New Patriotic Party’s Flagbearership,” according to a family source.
At the age of 38, Abena was the youngest woman ever appointed as a deputy minister to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
In the Ministry of Finance, she was responsible for acting as a liaison between the Ministry and Parliament on loan agreements, laws, and the annual national budget.
Mr Kyeremanten, then Minister of Trade, attended a Trade Ministry team to the funeral of the late Nana Tweneboah-Boateng, father of the Deputy Minister of Finance, in May 2018.
Mr. Kyerematen described Nana Tweneboah-Boateng as “a man of many parts, a friend for all seasons, a loyal, trusted friend, and a brother” in a memorial.
He stated that the two met as fellow students at the University of Ghana in the early 1970s and formed a friendship based on mutual respect and admiration, which grew over the years into a very fruitful and constructive professional collaboration in pursuit of shared faith and hope in Ghana and Africa.
“Nana was my de facto Chief of Staff during my professional career,” the Trade Minister asserted. I took him wherever my work took me, whether by accident or design, both in Ghana and abroad.
“He was a huge help to the Ministry’s work, coordinating the efforts of technical teams to implement some of the government’s important signature programmes, including, but not limited to, the “One District, One Factor initiative.”
“As a man of the people,” Mr. Kyeremanten said, “Nana would use a combination of native wisdom, bullying tactics, and personal charm to get the job done.” Nana was a man of strong convictions, so full of hope that the ups and downs of professional life did not deter or break him.
“His faith in God and in his country, as well as his love for his family, seemed to feed his boundless energy and perseverance.”
He had a positive attitude and a work ethic that claimed nothing was impossible.”
