Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu

Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu was a chartered accountant who represented Abuakwa North in the Eastern Region for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) from 2005 to 2009, and again from 2013 until he was killed in February 2016. He was born at Old Tafo on 2 July 1965 and was named after his grandfather, J. B. Danquah, one of the Big Six of Ghana's independence struggle.

He went to Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School at Legon. He won Abuakwa North in 2004 and served as Deputy Minister for Women and Children's Affairs under President Kufuor, then lost the seat in 2008 to Samuel Kwadwo Amoako, a fellow NPP member. He won it back in 2012. In the early hours of 9 February 2016 he was stabbed to death at his home in Accra; a man later confessed to killing him during a robbery and was charged with murder. Gifty Twum-Ampofo won the by-election that followed. He was married with two children.