Youths and Elders of Offinso Kayera ask Bryan Acheampong to drop politics and take up chieftaincy role

The youth and elders of Offinso Kayera in the Ashanti Region have made a clarion call on Dr Bryan Acheampong, the Minister for Food and Agriculture to as a matter of urgency, resign from his political role and from Parliament where he serves as a member for the Abetifi constituency in the Eastern Region, to pick up the role as chief of Offinso Kayera following the death of Nana Karikari Wiafi-Ababio.

Dr Bryan Acheampong according to the youths and elders of Offinso Kayera, is a royal and an indigene of their town whose grandparents migrated to Kwahu in the Eastern Region. They emphasized that as a royal of Offinso Kayera, he is fully fit to be enstooled as the chief of Offinso Kayera to occupy the stool which is now vacant.

Addressing a press conference in Offinso Kayera, spokesperson for the youths and elders of the community, Nana Owusu Ansah, said Dr Bryan Acheampong is a grandchild of one of the three elders (Nana Osei Kwaku, Nana Boateng, and Nana Acheampong) who founded the Offinso Kayera town and for that matter, he is a direct royal of Offinso Kayera who is fit to be the chief of the area.

“All those who are descendants of Nana Osei Kwaku and Nana Boateng who were qualified to assume the role of chief of Offinso Kayera have all unfortunately died. If the Offinso stool is vacant and we have a direct royal of Offinso Kayera such as Bryan Acheampong, it is only right that we make him the chief,” Nana Owusu Ansah said.

“I ask the youth and people of Offinso Kayera to enstool Bryan Acheampong as the Chief to allow him to bring the development he has brought to other parts of the country to Offinso Kayera as well. Our community lacks so many social amenities and I believe that if he is given the chieftaincy role, he will help develop the community his ancestors founded,” Nana Owusu Ansah added.

Bryan Acheampong

Bryan Acheampong is currently the Minister of Food and Agriculture and the Member of Parliament for the Abetifi Constituency. He is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs; and a Member of the Defence and Interior Committee, the Appointments Committee, and the Selection Committee.

He is the immediate past Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior and the former Minister of State at the Ministry of National Security. He was a member of the Trade and Industry Committee from 2016 to 2020. He is a retired soldier of the US Air Force with training in Anti-Terrorism, Force Protection, Laws of Armed Conflict, Conventional Defence Training, Weapons, Small Arms, and Fuels.

His experience spans Security, Intelligence, Politics, and Business Leadership. Bryan is a serial entrepreneur, having founded many successful businesses in Technology, Real Estate, Agriculture, Hospitality, and Media. Bryan was an adjunct lecturer in Electronic Business at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) for the 2021/2022 academic year.

He has a bachelor’s degree, three Master’s degrees, a graduate diploma in law, and he is a Ph.D. holder. Bryan holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Johnson and Wales University, USA, a Master’s in Business Administration from Johnson and Wales University- USA, a Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Applied Intelligence from Georgetown University- USA, and a Master of Arts (MA) in Security and Intelligence from the University of Leicester-UK.

Bryan also holds a graduate diploma in law from the University of Law, UK. He is a Ph.D. holder in Information Systems at the University of Ghana Business School, whose research examined mutual understanding in technology projects.

He holds a certificate in Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Effective Leadership in Management and Administration from the University of Ghana Business School, and Public Relations, Advertising, and Marketing from the Ghana Institute of Journalism. Bryan has six publications and many articles to his credit.

His foundation, the Bryan Acheampong Foundation, constantly embarks on Poverty Reduction, Health, Education, and Agriculture programs.

Reporting by Wilberforce Asare in Accra

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