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331: 30: 341: 972:- Kwesi Botchway has been the longest serving Finance Minister. He served from 1982 to 1993 under the PNDC government and from 1993 to 1995 in the same portfolio under the NDC government under Jerry Rawlings. In all he served a total of 13 years. 446:
to form a government prior to gaining full independence in 1957. The Ministry has at various times been designated as Ministry of Finance or as it is currently, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
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is the Ghanaian government official responsible for the Ministry of Finance of Ghana. The Minister for Finance since January 2017 has been
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at the beginning of the Fourth Republic and was in charge of the Economic Recovery Programme under the auspices of the
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military government and then as Minister for Finance in the constitutionally elected
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who assumed this position in 1954 when the Britain allowed
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stayed in office the longest (1982 to 1995), first under
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Index

Politics of Ghana

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Nana Akufo-Addo
Vice President
Mahamudu Bawumia
Ministers
Council of State
Speaker of the Parliament
Alban Sumana Bagbin
Parliament
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Judiciary
Supreme Court
Chief Justice
Kwasi Anin-Yeboah
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Electoral Commission
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