Beneficiary of Otumfuo Education Fund to contest in Sekyere Afram Plains NDC primaries

Professor Edward Brenya

Professor Edward Brenya, a beneficiary of Otumfuo Education Fund has declared his intention to contest in the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency parliamentary primaries of the National Democracy Congress (NDC) when the party opens nomination.

Nominations for NDC Parliamentary primaries have been put on hold in Sekyere Afram Plains and some 26 constituencies since February 22, 2023.

Prof. Brenya who is a royal of Drobonso, the capital of the Sekyere Afram plains District, noted that he had done the necessary consultations and had been encouraged to contest in the primaries and lead the people in Parliament.

"I am a royal from Drobonso. The Chief of Drobonso is my brother so I am more than qualified to lead my people in Parliament," he stated.

According to Prof. Brenya, he decided to contest as a Member of Parliament for the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency to contirbute to policy decisions and champion the development of his home constituency.

Profile
Prof. Edward Brenya was awarded a scholarship to pursue Master of Arts in International Affairs at Ohio University, Athens OH, USA while working as the administrative manager of the Otumfuo Education Fund in 2003.

While in USA, he pursued additional degrees: Master of Public Administration at Ohio University, Master of Political Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia respectively.

Dr. Brenya returned back to Ghana and took appointment as a lecturer in 2013 and has risen through the rank to an Associate Professor of Political Science and the head of the History and Political Studies Department at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

His areas of expertise are public policy analysis, public administration, Petroleum and gas politics and management, and democracy and democratization.

About Otumfuo Education Fund
In 1999, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, established the Otumfuo Education Fund to support brilliant but needy students to pursue their education.

The establishment of the Otumfuo Education Fund was necessitated by the abolishment of the academic user fees at the tertiary institutions by the government of Ghana.

Otumfuo the Asantehene indicated at the time of the establishment of the Fund that there was the need for communities to mobilize to support needy children with potentials whose dream maybe squashed due to the inability to obtain the needed support to pursue their educational dreams.

His Royal Majesty reiterated that his vision for Asanteman was to fight a different war than what the Kingdom was noted for in the past and this was a war against killing the dreams and potentials of bright but needy students.

Otumfuo the Asantehene therefore rekindled the communal spirit of Asantes and Ghanaians through the Otumfuo Education Fund to donate and help support bright but needy students to achieve their potentials with the sole aim of developing the needed skills for the development of communities and Ghana.

His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene’s vision has produced great personalities who are helping to promote democracy and development of Ghana in diverse ways.

Notable among the many beneficiaries of the Otumfuo Education Fund Ohio University scholarship are Dr. Bossman Asare, Vice Chairperson of Ghana Electoral Commission (EC) and Dr. Kingsley Antwi Boasiako, Director of Public Relations at Ghana Ports and Harbor.