Alexander Akwasi Acquah

Alexander Akwasi Acquah is a Ghanaian politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Akim Oda constituency in the Eastern Region. A member of the New Patriotic Party, he first won the seat in the 2020 general election with one of the largest individual vote shares recorded in that cycle, and was re-elected in December 2024 for a second term, continuing to represent the Birim Central Municipal District as an NPP minority MP in the Ninth Parliament.

Political career

Acquah's initial parliamentary victory in December 2020 was emphatic: he received 25,380 votes from 31,943 total votes cast in Akim Oda, representing 79.45 per cent of the vote, a majority so large as to make the constituency one of the safest NPP seats in the Eastern Region at that time. The scale of his 2020 victory reflected the NPP's strong standing in the area and his own personal support base in a constituency where he had established deep roots before entering elective politics. He assumed office on 7 January 2021 and served his first term in the Eighth Parliament, before being returned to the Ninth Parliament in January 2025 after his re-election the previous December.

Parliamentary work

He was appointed to the Open Parliament Steering Committee, a parliamentary governance body focused on transparency, public engagement and improving citizens' access to and understanding of parliamentary processes. The committee appointment reflects an engagement with the institutional reform dimensions of parliamentary work that complement his constituency representation. He has also been an active voice on natural resource governance, raising concerns about illegal mining activities in his constituency: in April 2026, he publicly accused the Akim Oda Municipal Chief Executive of facilitating illegal mining operations, a serious allegation that brought direct parliamentary scrutiny to the management of small-scale mining regulation at the district level and underscored the gap between national anti-galamsey policy and local implementation.

Political Legacy

Alexander Akwasi Acquah's consecutive election victories in Akim Oda and his willingness to publicly challenge local government officials on illegal mining reflect a parliamentary career shaped by strong constituency loyalty and an active oversight role. His advocacy on galamsey in an Eastern Region constituency affected by the practice gives his parliamentary work a direct connection to the environmental and economic concerns of the communities he represents.