HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HON. SARAH ADWOA SARFO

Today is the birthday of Hon. Sarah Adwoa Sarfo, current minister for Gender and Social protection and as well, member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya constituency of the Greater Accra region. Hon. Adwoa was also deputy majority leader in the 7th parliament. Www.ghanacelebrations.com wishes the Minister a very happy birthday celebrations and many more.

Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo (born 28 December 1981) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. She is the New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament (2013–2020) for the Dome Kwabenya Constituency of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. She is currently the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection.

Hon

Sarah Safo

Member of the Ghana Parliament

for Dome Kwabenya,

Incumbent

Assumed office: Jan 2013

Preceded by: Aaron Mike Oquaye

President: Nana Akufo-Addo

Personal details

Born

28 December 1981 (age 39)

Accra, Ghana

Nationality: Ghanaian

Political party: New Patriotic Party

Relations: Apostle Kwadwo Safo

Profession: Lawyer

Early life

Adwoa Safo was born to Ghanaian industrialist and pastor, Apostle Kwadwo Safo on 28 December 1981. She was home-tutored and wrote and passed her GCE A’ Level in 1998. At age 17, she entered the University of Ghana Faculty of Law where she obtained Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.) degree in 2002. Safo was the vice-president of the Law Students Union (LSU) in her final year. She then continued to the Ghana School of Law and was called to the Bar in October 2004 at the age of 22. She holds an LLM from George Washington University.

Career

She worked briefly with the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Washington DC in the United States and thereafter returned to Ghana to serve her nation. On her return home in late 2005, she joined the law firm Kulendu @ law, then Zoe, Akyea & Co, as a private legal practitioner and concurrently served on the Mediation Committee of the Legal Aid Board of Ghana as a Mediator.

She worked as the first legal officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) for two (2) years and was very instrumental in the formulation of the proposals that formed the basis for the creation of the Appeals and Complaint Panel of PPA and the change of the name Public Procurement Board to Public Procurement Authority.

Sari was first elected as the member of parliament for Dome Kwabenya in 2012. And she has been re-elected in 2016 and 2020. She was deputy majority leader of the 7th Parliament of the Republic of Ghaan and is the only female MP in Ghana to ascend to the number 2 position of the Majority front.

She was appointed Minister of State in charge of Government Procurement in 2017, serving till 2021; under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, 5th president of the Republic of Ghana.

In the eight parliament under the fourth parliament of Ghana, President Akufo-Addo appointed her as Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection as she served as the Minister for Procurement during the 7th parliament of Ghana.

Personal life