Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey

Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey won Keta for the NDC in 2024 with 29,471 votes, 91.18 per cent, one of the largest margins in the country. He first took the seat in 2020 after Richard Quashigah retired.

Background

He sat the BECE in 1990 and the SSCE in 1993. Shipping and export management was his first diploma, in 1998, and marketing his second, at postgraduate level, in 2003, then a series of health certificates between 2004 and 2016 in research, health management and malaria and parasitic disease control. He also holds a public health degree.

In Parliament

He won 72.1 per cent of the vote in 2020. His committee work has covered agriculture and cocoa, and the committee on members holding offices of profit. In January 2022 he paid for a youth apprenticeship scheme in Keta.

Attacks

He was attacked by armed men in December 2020 and again in January 2021, and believes both were targeted. Three people were put on trial over the first attack. He is a Christian.