Former Member of Parliament for Bantama constituency in the Ashanti Region, Daniel Okyem Aboagye has died at the age of 49.
Okyem Aboagye passed away at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi on Saturday, September 23 after a short illness.
He was a member of Parliament’s finance committee. After spending one term in the House, the businessman became a spokesman for the New Patriotic Party on economic matters.
He lost the NPP nomination to stand for the Bantama seat to the then deputy chief of staff Francis Asenso-Boakye in the 2020 NPP parliamentary primaries.
Okyem Aboagye owned many businesses in Ashanti Region, popular among them 2M Transport Services.
Background in business
Born in Atwima Boko in the Ashanti Region, Daniel Okyem Aboagye studied at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in business administration.
He then moved to the United States of America for postgraduate studies and earned an MBA (specialisations in accounting and management of information systems) from Troy University, Alabama, in 2002.
He was formally certified as a public accountant, also in the United States, in 2003.
Okyem Aboagye launched his business career as a branch manager of Sinapi Aba Trust in 1998.
Between 2003 and 2006 he was a project manager for Opportunity International, a US-based non-profit organisation that provides small business loans and training in savings and insurance to more than 14 million people across the developing world.
From 2008 to 2012 he was the financial controller of Globe Union in the US as well as the chief executive officer of MGI Microfinance.