Andrew Egyapa Mercer
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Hon. Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer |
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| MP for Sekondi | |
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Assumed office 7 January 2017 |
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| President | Nana Akuffo-Addo |
| Preceded by | Papa Owusu-Ankomah |
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Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer 25 May 1973 Ghana |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Political party | New Patriotic Party |
| Alma mater | Adisadel College, University of Ghana, Ghana School of Law |
| Occupation | Member of Parliament |
| Profession | Lawyer |
The Honourable Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer (born 25 May 1973) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament for the Sekondi Constituency in the Western Region of Ghana. He succeeded Papa Owusu-Ankomah, who had been MP for 20 years.
Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer was born in Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana to James Mercer, a Ghanaian lawyer and diplomat. He attended Chapel Hill Preparatory School in Takoradi for his primary education. He proceeded to the Adisadel College in Cape Coast, where he obtained both his GCE Ordinary level and GCE Advanced level certificates. He gained entrance into the University of Ghana, graduating with Honours in Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Bachelor of Laws. He studied at the Ghana School of Law and qualified as a lawyer in Ghana after passing his bar examination.
Egyapa Mercer commenced his working life as a pupil with Messrs. Acquah-Sampon and Associates, a firm of solicitors based in Accra in 2004. He joined First Atlantic Bank in Accra in 2007 as an assistant manager and advanced to become the head of the legal department. Whilst at First Atlantic, he contested and lost the 2011 Parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party in Sekondi to the incumbent Papa Owusu-Ankomah. He resigned in 2013 to set up Messrs. Mercer and Company, a corporate and investment law firm based in Accra.
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