Philip Basoah, 54, was the Ashanti Region’s Kumawu Constituency’s representative in parliament.
Mr. Basoah, born in 1969, died last night, but details of his passing are immediately not known.
He first came to Parliament in 2017 after winning the 2016 general elections in the Kumawu constituency.
From June 2005 to January 2009, Mr. Basoah served as the Chief Executive for the Sekyere East District and a tutor at the Agogo State College before entering politics.
In the 2016 Ghana general elections, he won the parliamentary seat with 21,794 votes making 78.2% of the total votes cast on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party.
In the 2020 Ghana general elections, he won the parliamentary seat with 14,960 votes making 51.1% of the total votes cast.