Marricke Kofi Gane

Marricke was born in Keta to a trader mother and an engineer father; he is the third of his parents' four children. He spent part of his childhood with his grandparents as his fisherman grandfather's boy and as a second-hand clothes stall assistant to his grandmother on market days at Keta in the Volta Region.[6] He attended the A.M.E. Zion Primary School in Keta for his Junior High School education and the Keta Senior High School afterwards. He studied professional Accounting and graduated as a Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA). He has a certificate in “Micro-finance for Development” from the University of Greenwich.[7]

Kofi started his career as an Audit Trainee with Messrs Pannell Kerr Forster (PKF). He went on to serve in an Audit senior role, then as an Audit & Consulting Manager at PKF. He served as Co-Audit Senior role at the Ghana Commercial Bank. He also served as a Feasibility Studies Consultant for the potential revival of the then Pwalugu Tomato factory, and with the Benso Oil Palm Plantation.[8]

Marricke also lectured several ACCA, CIMA and ICSA courses in several institutions in Ghana. He later worked for development, policy, think-tank and diplomatic organisations such as Christian Aid, the Commonwealth Secretariat, International Alert, and lastly, Crown Agents. He is currently a Director of Studies in selected Public Financial Management Subjects.[9]

Marricke is also an opinion columnist at ModernGhana.com.[10]

In 2019 Marricke announced his intention to run for office as president of Ghana as an independent candidate.[11] In August 2020, he left the Coalition of Independent Political Aspirants (CIPA) to run his own campaign based on what he describes as a flawed process leading to Kofi Koranteng being chosen as the lead candidate going into the December polls.[12] He launched his manifesto and campaign at the Alisa Hotel in Accra.[4] In October 2020, his party's nomination was disqualified by the Electoral Commission (EC) for technical reasons.[13] He challenged his disqualification by the EC but was subsequently dismissed by an Accra High Court.[14]