Ibrahim Issaka Adam
Minister for Agriculture
In office
1993–1996
PresidentJohn Jerry Rawlings
Preceded bySelf
Succeeded bySteve Obimpeh
Secretary for Agriculture
In office
1992 – 6 January 1993
PresidentJohn Jerry Rawlings
Preceded bySteve Obimpeh
Succeeded bySelf
Member of Parliament for Choggo/Tishigu
In office
7 January 1997 – 6 January 2001
Preceded byMohammed Haroon
Succeeded byAbubakari Sumani
Personal details
NationalityGhanaian
Political partyNational Democratic Congress
SpouseSelassie Ibrahim
OccupationAnimal scientist, politician

Ibrahim Adam is a Ghanaian politician and animal scientist. He was the member of parliament for the Choggo/Tishigu constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana between January 1997 and January 2001.[1]

Education

Ibrahim holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Agriculture. He is an animal scientist by profession.[1]

Politics

Ibrahim was elected to represent the Choggo/Tishigu constituency in the 2nd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana in the 1996 Ghanaian general election. He was elected on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress.[1][2] He took over from Ahaji Mohammed Haroon also of the National Democratic Congress who represented the constituency in the first parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana.[3] Ibrahim lost his seat to Alhaji Abubakari Sumani in the subsequent elections of 2000.[4][5]

Elections

Ibrahim was elected with 22,368 votes out of 53,526 valid votes cast representing 41.79% of the total valid votes cast. He was elected over Mohammed A. Sadique of the People's Convention Party, Alhassan Wayo Seini of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Abubakar Al-Hassan of the National Convention Party, Iddrisu Hudu of the People's National Convention, Abdul-Samed Muhtar of the National Convention Party and Faiz Aouri Moutrage an independent candidate. These obtained 38.86%, 2.60%, 9.38%, 3.25%, 0.86% and 3.26% respectively of the total valid votes cast.[1]

The Quality Grain Company case

In 2003, Adam, Kwame Peprah, former Minister for Finance in the Rawlings government and George Yankey, a former Director of Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions were jailed by an Accra Fast Track High Court for causing financial loss to the state. Two others were discharged. This follows the conviction of Juliet Cotton an American citizen in the United States, president of the Quality Grain Company Ghana Limited for squandering half of the 18 million dollars loaned to her to set up a rice project in Ghana.[6] Adam and Yankey were jailed for two years while Peprah was jailed for four years.[7] There was no evidence that Adam and the accused persons had any personal gain from the fraud. The presiding judge, Kwame Afreh insinuated that they were covering up for Jerry Rawlings, using the Ghanaian Pidgin English phrase, "monkey dey work, baboon dey chop".[8] On his release from prison in 2004, John Atta Mills Vice President in Ghana between 1997 and 2001 and who went on to become president of Ghana between 2009 until his death in 2012 asserted that Adam and Yankey had been unjustly treated. Obed Asamoah also Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Rawlings government said they had been victims of a political vendetta by the NPP Kufuor government.[9] A valuation authorised by the NPP government in 2006 indicated that although the project had been lying idle, there had been no financial loss following the valuation of the assets which seems to agree with the defence Adam and others made that if valued correctly, there had been no loss.[10]

Personal life

Ibrahim is married to a Selassie Ibrahim (a Ghanaian actress, film producer and an entrepreneur) and they have a son and daughter together.[11][12][13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 1996 Parliamentary Election Results. Ghana: Electoral Commission of Ghana. p. 6.
  2. ↑ FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 1996 Results - Chogu / Tishigu Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  3. ↑ Elected Parliamentarians - 1992 Elections. Ghana: Electoral Commission of Ghana.
  4. ↑ Electoral Commission of Ghana Parliamentary Result -Election 2000 (PDF). Ghana: Electoral Commission of Ghana. 2007. p. 39. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  5. ↑ FM, Peace. "Ghana Election 2000 Results - Chogu / Tishigu Constituency". Ghana Elections - Peace FM. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  6. ↑ "Atlantan's Loan Scam Should Not Affect Other Africa Credits". Global Atlanta. 30 November 2001. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Peprah, Others jailed in Quality Grain case". GhanaWeb. 29 April 2003. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "Quality Grain: Is Rawlings The Real Culprit?". GhanaWeb. 29 April 2003. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  9. ↑ "Adam and Yankey released from prison". GhanaWeb. 28 August 2004. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  10. ↑ "Quality Grain Caused No Financial Loss". GhanaWeb. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  11. ↑ "NDC guru's wife branded BRT buses". pulse ghana. 2015-12-16. Archived from the original on 2019-06-26. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  12. ↑ "NDC girl grabs GH¢3.6 million bus branding contract". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  13. ↑ "Actress Selassie Ibrahim under attack". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
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