Patrick Yaw Boamah

Patrick Yaw Boamah is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician born on 19 September 1974. He hails from Mourso-Effiduase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and has built his public career in the Fourth Republic of Ghana, serving as the member of Parliament for Okaikwei Central Constituency in the Greater Accra Region. He represents the constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party and is a member of the 8th Parliament.

Boamah’s public life rests on a strong legal and academic background. He studied at the University of Ghana, where he obtained a bachelor of laws in 2004, a master’s degree in international affairs in 2005, and an LLB in 2008. He later continued to the Ghana School of Law, receiving his barrister-at-law degree in 2009. This mix of law and international affairs helped form the practical, institutional outlook that has marked his work in Parliament.

Before entering national politics, Boamah worked as a lawyer. He was an associate at Sam Okudzato and Associates, a law firm in Accra, where he worked for five years. He was also a lawyer at Boamah & Partners, a legal practice he established in 2013. He is a member of the Ghana Bar Association and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, ties that reflect the legal foundation of his professional life.

Boamah entered Parliament on 7 January 2013 as the New Patriotic Party member for Okaikwei Central. He was re-elected in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Ghanaian general elections, continuing to represent the same constituency. In Parliament, he has served on committees including the Subsidiary Legislation Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is currently the vice chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Standing Orders and Appointments committees.

His work brings together the habits of a lawyer, the concerns of a constituency representative, and the experience of Ghana’s parliamentary system. Boamah is married with two children, identifies as a Christian, and is a member of the Methodist Church of Ghana. A line associated with him, “Look forward with hope, not backwards with regret,” fits the public tone of a figure whose career has moved through law, committee work, elections, and service in Ghana’s Parliament.