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Akwasi Oppong Fosu

Politician

Akwasi Oppong Fosu is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Akwasi Opong-Fosu · Akwasi Oppong Fosu				[sources]
Alias	Akwasi Opong-Fosu				[sources]
Birth date	1958-02-01				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Ghana				[sources]
Country	Ghana				[sources]
Citizenship	Ghana				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Akwasi				[sources]
Political association	National Democratic Congress				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16199405				[sources]
Position	Member of the 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana (2013-2017) · Minister for Local Government (2013-2017) · Parliament (member, 2013-2017)				[sources]
Education	University of London				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Minister for Local Government and Rural Development

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,461

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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