Peter Wiafe Pepera
Ghanaian politician
Peter Wiafe Pepera (9 May 1954 - 21 May 2016) was a Ghanaian politician and a former Member of Parliament of Abetifi constituency in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He was a member of the New Patriotic Party of Ghana. He was succeeded by Bryan Acheampong.
Personal life
Pepera was born on 9 May 1954. He hailed from Abetifi, a town in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He was an alumnus of the University of Birmingham, UK and obtained his Master of Science degree in systems engineering in 1980. He worked as managing director for Paramount Distilleries. He served as Member of Parliament from January 2009 until his death in 2016.
Politics
He was a member of the National Democratic Congress in the 1990s until he defected to the New Patriotic Party in the 2000s. Whilst in the NDC, He served as deputy Minister of Trade and Industry under the Rawlings government.
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