Owen Kwame Frimpong

Owen Kwame Frimpong is a Ghanaian businessman and politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Lower West Akim constituency in the Eastern Region. A member of the National Democratic Congress who won the seat in December 2024 as a first-term parliamentarian, he assumed office on 7 January 2025 bringing a private sector shipping and logistics business executive profile to the parliamentary representation of a constituency in the Akim West Akim Municipal area of the Eastern Region.

Professional background

Frimpong is the Chief Executive Officer of Bridavis Shipping Company, a Ghanaian shipping enterprise in which he has built an executive career in maritime trade, freight logistics and the shipping services that support Ghana's import-export commerce. As CEO of a shipping company, he brings specialist expertise in trade logistics, port operations and the commercial infrastructure of Ghana's external trade, a background that gives his parliamentary advocacy a private sector trade facilitation dimension distinct from the public sector and legal careers that characterise the professional backgrounds of many Ghanaian MPs. His business background in shipping and trade logistics also informs his perspective on the Eastern Region's economic connectivity and the infrastructure needs of Lower West Akim's communities.

2024 election and parliamentary career

He contested the Lower West Akim constituency on the NDC ticket in the 2024 general election and won, defeating the NPP candidate in a constituency in the West Akim Municipal District of the Eastern Region. The West Akim area is a constituency whose communities depend on cocoa farming, gold mining and the agricultural economy of the Eastern Region's forest belt. He assumed office on 7 January 2025. Lower West Akim was created from the former Akim Swedru constituency and its communities include farming towns and small commercial centres along the road networks connecting the Eastern Region to Greater Accra.

Political Legacy

Owen Kwame Frimpong's career as a shipping company CEO gives his parliamentary representation of Lower West Akim a private sector trade and logistics perspective that could enrich the constituency's advocacy for better commercial connectivity and economic infrastructure in the Eastern Region.