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Bekwai is an agricultural- mining town and the capital of the Bekwai Municipal, a municipal of Ashanti. Bekwai has a settlement population of 5,267 people. Bekwai and the Bekwai Municipal are south of the Ashanti capital Kumasi, north of Obuasi.
Joseph Osei-Owusu is the member of parliament for the constituency. He was elected as an Independent Candidate. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party but contested as an Independent candidate after losing in the election as a New Patriotic candidate. He won a majority of 34,700 votes to become the MP. He succeeded Ignatius Kofi Poku Edusei who had represented the constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He is a lawyer of 21yrs standing and a former Chief Executive of DVLA, Ghana
He holds a BA (Classics and Law) UG, 1987, BL (GSL), 1989 and an Executive Masters in Governance and Leadership (EMGL)from GIMPA, 2007.