Francis Asenso-Boakye

In January 2017, Francis Asenso-Boakye was appointed the political assistant and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Flagstaff House by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In June 2020, Asenso-Boakye won the Bantama NPP primaries against the incumbent Daniel Okyem Aboagye in a bid to contest for a seat in the Parliament of Ghana. In the 2020 General Elections, he polled 88.84% of total votes cast to emerge as the parliamentary representative of Bantama (Ghana parliament constituency). Consequentially, he has been appointed as the minister-designate for Ministry of Works and Housing (Ghana)

Francis Asenso-Boakye (born 24 September 1977) is a Ghanaian politician and businessman. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He is the member of parliament for the Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He was the deputy Chief of Staff and Political Assistant to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo; President of the Republic of Ghana. He is currently the Minister for Works and Housing.

He was born on 24th September, 1977 and hails from Maase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Prior to joining mainstream politics in Ghana, he was a former student activist of the New Patriotic Party who played a pioneering role in the formation of the tertiary students’ wing of the party, the Tertiary Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON), and served as its Founding President while pursuing his undergraduate studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Asenso-Boakye after completing a degree in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology pursued a master's degree in Public Policy and Administration as a Rotary Scholar at the Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.