President John Dramani Mahama has nominated Dr. Clement Apaak, a Builsa South MP and Deputy Minister-designate for Education.
He would be the Deputy for Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu if he is approved by Parliament.
The nominee was a critic of former President Akufo-Addo’s approach to managing the education sector, particularly the implementation of the free Senior School policy.
Before being elected to Parliament to represent Builsa South, he worked as a presidential staffer for President John Dramani Mahama during his first term.
He was Deputy Ranking Member of Parliament’s Education Committee, as well as a member of the Public Accounts Committee.
In the seventh Parliament, he served on the aforementioned committees as well as the Foreign Affairs Committee.
As a member of Parliament, Dr. Apaak has advocated for mental health, ocean and water body protection, and an end to the illegal Rosewood trade.
At the President’s request, he established and led the Citizens Complaints Unit, as well as the Policy Delivery Unit in the President’s Office. Before joining the John Mahama government, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, his first official job after returning from Canada, where he lived, studied, and received his Ph.D.
Dr. Clement Abas Apaak is a known human rights advocate, community organiser, public speaker, and educator.He holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University (SFU), Burnaby, British Columbia (BC), Canada; an M.Phil. from the University of Bergen, Norway; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ghana, Ghana.
Born in Ghana, Africa, he was the first international student to be elected to a university board in British Columbia, Canada, and the first African graduate student to speak on behalf of his graduation class at his graduation.He is a former SFU senator and student society president and is the founder of Canadian Students for Darfur (www.csfdarfur.net), a humanitarian organisation. As an accomplished student leader and activist in the 1990s in his home nation, Dr. Apaak has been active in every part of the world he has lived in, including Ghana, the USA, Norway, and Canada.
Dr Apaak founded Canadian Students for Darfur (www.csfarfur.net) in 2004 to raise awareness about the Darfur conflict in western Sudan, and his organisation has since raised more than $50,000 to help refugees in Darfur. His community involvement is well documented from Ghana to Canada, and his involvement in the Vancouver African community is reflected in his role as a regular master of ceremony for Africa-related and African community events, his position as a founding member of the United African Communities of British Columbia, and his radio show ‘African Connection’, which airs on CJSF 90.1FM (www.cjsf.ca).
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
