Edward K.Doe Adjaho

The longest-serving Member of Parliament from the Volta Region before he became Speaker of Parliament in 2013 was born on January 3, 1957. The independence-year baby became the first Member of Parliament in the history of the Fourth Republic to resign as a legislator to become a Speaker of Parliament. The five-term MP had won his six-term in 2012 when he was nominated by his peers to become Speaker and hence had to resign as a legislator to take on the new role. His tenure was characterised by shadowboxing with lawmakers of the then opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who accused him of extreme partisanship. In September 2016, Speaker Adjaho dismissed a motion filed by the Minority NPP calling for investigations into President John Mahama’s Ford gift saga. He directed the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of the house to pursue the case at the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ). According to the Speaker, various legal and constitutional provisions indicate that the body mandated to deal with such issues is the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ). The then Minority described the decision as biased. The University of Ghana and Ghana School of Law products joined the bar in 1986. He worked at the Attorney-General’s department before turning to politics six years later when he became the MP for Ave-Avenor.