MoE describes how he left the US to help with Ghana's free secondary education.

 The Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe Constituency, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, was appointed Minister of Education in President Akufo-Addo's second term of office. He has revealed why he left the United States to promote education in his home country.

The Education Minister said in an interview that Thisterm.com was able to see that he decided to go back to Ghana after meeting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who was pleased with his work in the state of California's educational system.

Speaking about how he went from being the illiterate farmer's son to being Ghana's Minister of Education, he claimed that his younger brother had to sell his pig to enable his father earn the money he needed to send him to senior high school.

I was raised in extreme poverty as the son of a cocoa grower. We picked the cocoa, piled it in one spot, cracked the pods, fermented it, then moved the fermented seeds onto the drying pad while on vacation and weeding around the cocoa trees. With God's blessing, we bring it to the shed to be sold when it dries out so your father may gain some cash.

It wasn't cocoa season and there wasn't any money when I passed the common entry and was meant to proceed to secondary school. My dad was having financial difficulties, so he brought me with him from country to village while pleading with other cocoa farmers for loans so he could save up 40 cedis, which would be my deposit for attending school. I was about to run out of luck when my younger brother made the decision to sell a pig he owned.

"Thanks to that, I was able to continue my education. I attended Kumasi Senior High School (6th form) and Tech (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) before arriving in the United States. There, I became actively involved in the Ghanaian community and rose from my position as secretary of the Ghana Association of Southern California to president. The minister of education is the son of an illiterate mother and father, but it isn't ironic, I often tell people," he said.
Ghanaian politician Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum serves as the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) representative for the Bosomtwe Constituency in the Ashanti Region.

BIOGRAPHY OF DR. YAW OSEI ADUTWUM 

Dr. Adutwum was born in Jachie, Ashanti region, on April 9, 1964. She has a Ph.D. in educational policy, planning, and administration, a master's degree in education management, and a bachelor's degree in land economy.

Having created New Designs Charter Schools, he has experience instructing students in mathematics and information technology with an emphasis on social and intellectual growth.

Dr. Adutwum established STEM colleges and institutions all around Ghana, making a major contribution to the country's educational system. He is now in charge of pre-tertiary education as the Minister of Education.

After serving as the Deputy Minister for Education for four years, he was named Minister of Education (MoE) on January 21, 2021, demonstrating his commitment to enhancing education in Ghana.