|term_start relations predecessor successor birth_place president imagesize nationality party office profession birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name alma_mater
1997 kwesi ahwoi , ato ahwoi '' new ministry '' obed asamoah william yeboah kofi konadu apraku victor gbeho cecilia johnson ghana jerry rawlings jerry rawlings jerry rawlings 120px ghanaian national democratic congress minister minister for foreign affairs -lrb- ghana -rrb- minister for local for government and rural development planning and regional economic co-operation and integration academic , lawyer 1951 22nd 1997 1993 kwamena ahwoi
 jan 2001 1997 1997 kwamena ahwoi university of oxford
kwamena ahwoi

kwamena ahwoi -lrb- born 1951 -rrb- is a politician in ghana who served as minister for local government and rural development from 1990 to 2001 in the national democratic congress -lrb- ndc -rrb- government , during the reign of jerry rawlings .
he also briefly served as minister of foreign affairs in 1997 , and was acting minister in that department during much of the 1990s .
in 2005 , he resigned as director of research for the ndc .
