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Hon. Collins Dauda Member of the Ghana Parliament
for Asutifi SouthIncumbent Assumed office
Jan 2005Preceded by Cecilia Djan Amoah In office
Jan 1993 – Jan 2001Preceded by First in Fourth Republic Succeeded by Cecilia Djan Amoah Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Incumbent Assumed office
Feb 2009President John Atta Mills Preceded by Esther Obeng Dapaah
Minister for Lands, Forestry and MinesPersonal details Born February 13, 1957
Mehame, GhanaNationality Ghanaian Political party National Democratic Congress Profession Teacher, Politician Collins Dauda (born 13 February 1957) is a teacher, politician and the Ghanaian Minister for Lands and Natural Resources.
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Early life and education
Collins Dauda was born at Mehame in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. His parents were Issaka Naaba and Mariama Issah. His secondary education was at Mim Secondary School where he obtained both the GCE Ordinary Level and the GCE Advanced Level between 1973 to 1981.[1]
Career
Dauda taught at the Kukuom Agricultural Secondary School from 1985. In 1986, he joined the teaching staff at the Ahafoman Secondary School where he continued until 1992.
Politics
Dauda became a member of the Asutifi District Assembly between 1978 to 1981. He was a member of the Consultative Assembly that drew up the 1992 Ghana constitution between 1991 and 1992. He was first elected to parliament in the 1992 parliamentary election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress making him the first MP for the Asutifi South in the Fourth Republic. He won a second term in the 1996 parliamentary election. He however lost his seat in 2000 parliamentary election only to regain it in 2004. During 2002 and 2004 when he was out of parliament, he was the Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Brong Ahafo Region. In February 2009, Collins Dauda was appointed Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources.
He is married with two wives and twelve children.
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Parliament of Ghana Preceded by Asutifi South
1993 –2001Succeeded by
Cecilia Djan AmoahPreceded by
Cecilia Djan AmoahAsutifi South
2005 – presentIncumbent Political offices Preceded by
Esther Obeng Dapaah
Minister for Lands, Forestry and MinesMinister for Lands and Natural Resources
2009 – presentIncumbent Categories:- Living people
- 1957 births
- Ghanaian MPs 1993–1997
- Ghanaian MPs 1997–2001
- Ghanaian MPs 2005–2009
- Ghanaian MPs 2009–
- Government ministers of Ghana
- Ghanaian educators
- National Democratic Congress (Ghana) politicians
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