Minister for Defence –Hon Dr Benjamin Bewa-Nyog Kunbuor
Hon Dr Benjamin Bewa-Nyog Kunbuor, the Member of Parliament for Lawra-Nandom in the Upper West Region and the Minister of Defence, holds a PhD in Law. Until his current appointment, he was the Majority Leader in Parliament and once ago the Minister for Justice and Attorney General.
Because he is generally known as a politician, his immense contributions to the academia are not known to most people. He has nine publications to his credit and once a part time lecturer at the Ghana School of Law. Apart from his field of academic experience in socio-legal research in Law and Development, specialising in Law and Economic Relations, he also has extensive knowledge in Law and Taxation.
Dr Kunbuor has ever worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, responsible for holding seminars for undergraduate students in Constitutional and Administrative Law as well as Law and Development programmes, among others.
In the telecommunication sector, he is well versed in Telecommunications and Broadcasting Regulations. He is an expert in Security Sector Governance, Constitutional Law, and Human Rights Development. As a multi-task person, his expertise in the financial sector includes Banking and Securities Regulations, Corporate Finance and Law on Pension. Hon Dr Kunbuor was once the Director of Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, responsible for operations, general investigations and complaints of Human Rights violations in the country.
Dr Kunbuor’s first parliamentary contest was in the year 2000, which he won by 62.5%, and retained the seat during the next election, but lost it after the2008 elections, which brought his party, the NDC, back to power. He was then appointed the Deputy Minister of Health. In the following year, he was appointed Minister of Health.
Following a Cabinet reshuffle, Hon Kunbuor was moved by the late President Mills to the Interior Ministry, and subsequently becoming the Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
He received several awards including the British Chevening Schorlaship and the University of Warwick Overseas Award (OSSA) Doctoral Award. Others are Distinguished Performance as Ranking Member of the Defence/Interior Committee on the Third and Fourth Republic of Ghana as well as Minister of the Year 2010 award.
Due to his expertise and knowledge in Law, he has served on several committees while in Parliament, including the Ranking Member for Finance, and Defence/Interior Parliamentary Committees. He also served as a Member of the Constitutional, Parliamentary and Legal committees as we as the Subsidiary Legislation; Judiciary and Standing Order Committee.
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