Dorcas Affo-Toffey

Dorcas Affo-Toffey, MP for Jomoro, was approved by Parliament as Deputy Minister for Transport on 29 July 2025. In June 2026 she was named best performing deputy minister at the Ministers of State Excellence Honours.

From Tikobo to Atlanta

She was born on 4 May 1975 at Tikobo No. 1. Her parents were Mary Afo Danyi and the late Stephen Ackah Toffey; she was the 18th of her father's 23 children and her mother's last of five. She attended school in Tikobo and at Ideal Preparatory School in Takoradi, then Nkroful Agricultural Secondary School from 1986. She then joined her brothers in the United States, where she studied dental hygiene, real estate management and branding. From 2002 she ran businesses in Atlanta, including Queen D Beauty and the construction firm Topeka Properties, and she is a senior partner in Selfie Homes. She came home in 2012.

In Ghana she earned a BSc and an MBA in marketing at Knutsford University College, a further MBA at Accra Business School in 2024 and an MSc in energy and sustainability management at Regent University College.

Politics

The NDC chose her as its Jomoro candidate in August 2019 with 87.4 per cent of delegates' votes, and she won the seat in 2020 with 24,356 votes (55.5 per cent). After her nomination as deputy transport minister she proposed a rail line from Jomoro to Tema. She is the mother of singer Fantana.