{"id":767981,"date":"2022-01-27T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/meet-the-youngest27-and-oldest73-mp-in-ghanas-current-parliament\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:23:48","slug":"meet-the-youngest27-and-oldest73-mp-in-ghanas-current-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/meet-the-youngest27-and-oldest73-mp-in-ghanas-current-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Youngest(27) And Oldest(73) MP In Ghana&#8217;s Current Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>There has been several members of Parliament that has passed through since the fourth republic began. In today&#8217;s article, let us look at the current youngest and oldest Member of Parliament in the fourth republic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Youngest MP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s current Parliamentarian is a Ms. <strong>Francisca Oteng-Mensah<\/strong>. Francisca Oteng-Mensah is the daughter of Joyce Oteng and Dr Kwaku Oteng, a doctor and businessman who happens to be the CEO of the Angel Group of Companies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3796ccc18e5147478da147285747a857\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fransisca is the member of parliament (MP) for Kwabre East constituency in the Ashanti Region. She entered Parliament at the age of 24 in 2017. She has maintained her seat by winning the 2020 general elections. She was born on 14th February, 1993 which makes her 27 years currently. She happens to be a member of the New Patriotic Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oldest MP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Benson Tongo Baba<\/strong> is the current oldest member of Parliament in Ghana. He hails from the Talensi Constituency in the Upper East Region. He was born 23rd September, 1948. He is 78 years currently. He happens to be a member of the National Democratic Congress(NDC). He has been a member of Parliament for more than ten years. He was in the sixth and seventh Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/51753dfa4ed0490592b2c7cebdbca8b4\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow me for more interesting articles.<\/p>\n<p>Comment below your opinion on this.<\/p>\n<p>Like and also share<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Rexbank (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAngel<br \/>\nFrancisca Oteng-Mensah<br \/>\nFransisca<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nNew Patriotic Party<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been several members of Parliament that has passed through since the fourth republic began. In today&#8217;s article, let us look at the current youngest and oldest Member of Parliament in the fourth republic. Youngest MP Ghana&#8217;s current Parliamentarian is a Ms. Francisca Oteng-Mensah. Francisca Oteng-Mensah is the daughter of Joyce Oteng and Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}