Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah

Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah was born in Big Ada, Greater Accra Region on 3 November 1967.[1] Comfort earned her Diploma in Stenographership from Royal Academy of Accounting, Accra in 1983. She earned a certificate in Radio and TV Presentation from the Ghana Institute of Journalism in 2011.[2]

Cudjoe-Ghansah is the Member of Parliament for Ada constituency, and sits on the committees for gender and children, and on foreign affairs.[1] She is the Minister of State for the Ghanaian government on Social and Allied Institutions,[3] having been named to the role in January 2013 by President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama.[4] She denied accusations in 2014 that she had bribed assembly members to reject a District Chief Executive nominated by the President. Her name was cleared at an emergency meeting in the region.[5]

She met with the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana later that year to discuss joint working on health and the well-being of children.[6]

In 2016, she presented computers on behalf of the government to the head of the Ghanaian civil service,[7] and over 500 desks to schools within her constituency. In a low key ceremony, she stressed the importance of education to Ghanaian citizens.[8]

She is a Christian who is married with six children.[2] She has spoken at events which have sought to bring religious cohesiveness to the area, praising the peace within Ghana.[11]