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Moctar Musah Bambah

Ghanaian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ98812008 ↗
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Alhaji Moctar Musah Bambah is a Ghanaian politician and was the member of parliament for the Wenchi East constituency in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. He was a member of parliament in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was also a Deputy Minister of Presidential Affairs.

Politics

Bambah is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He was elected as the member of parliament for the Wenchi East constituency in the Brong Ahafo region in the 3rd parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was succeeded by Professor George Yaw Djan-Baffuor after the constituency was changed to Wenchi constituency in the 2004 Ghanaian General elections. He was initially elected into parliament on 7 January 1997 after being pronounced winner of the 1996 Ghanaian General Elections.

Elections

Bambah was elected as the member of parliament for the Wenchi East constituency in the 2000 Ghanaian general elections. He was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party. His constituency was a part of the 14 parliamentary seats out of 21 seats won by the New Patriotic Party in that election for the Brong Ahafo Region.

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“Moctar Musah Bambah” enters the record as ghanaian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moctar, Musah and Bambah can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q98812008. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 1997, 1996 and 2000.

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