Youngest MP in Ghana graduates from KNUST with 2nd class

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July 6, 2017 10:58 PM

Ms. Francisca Oteng Mensah turned heads when she won her bid to become MP in 2016. She graduated from KNUST with a 2nd class honors LLB.

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The 24 year old woman who stood on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to win the Kwabre East Constituency in the Ashanti Region, was hailed as the youngest Member of Parliament in Ghana.

Ms Francisca Oteng was already enrolled at the university and was in her final year pursuing LLB at the College of Humanities when she contested for the position.

Her ascent to becoming MP of the area started with her shocking victory in the constituency primary in 2015.

She beat the incumbent Kofi Frimpong with 321 votes in an area known to be a hub of the then-opposition party and coincidentally gave the NPP a chunk of its votes.

When asked how she was going to juggle her work and school she told reporters that she was more than capable of handling both jobs.

She graduated over the weekend along with 2,200 from the university.

Oteng Mensah had earlier made headlines when she donated her three month salary along with taxi cabs to her constituents as part of her fulfillment of her campaign promise.

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